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Show WORKMEN HURT BY EXPLOSION OF GAS Surgeons Drvsa Wounds Which Follow Accident in Wyoming Oil Well. Special to The Trdnire. HA SIX. Wyo.. Any - Frank Fmith. H dlllie!'. Helhert HtKMl. a too; -dr-s.-er ; lid Lamb, a fo:enian, a;id several o'ht-r e;i.pi..ees of th.e l-an. ' I 'nliiiu- e unpanv, know now sotdiers on Ihiroprim h. tt i.--tie.ds fer-1 v !-,en snrapnel burst anions them. This is th.e result of I !w; ep.o-suMi ep.o-suMi of an :; in -inch tas pipe line lo-.tr Frannie. Snot li a n.l U a rreti. ea-hi with a scattered jw. ar.d Lnn.;. with Iniur-les Iniur-les to his he.td, are m t:ie hospital ..-:e. and se ,-( a I ot her w or k - rKM ha v- le set loo- injuries. a-ise, v rlvmg hi! s of i"on pine. Incidt n ta i!y.- P.m su-yt-ons hav e e r 1 1: a I in son: e j a stic surgery which wou.d be a credit to French army su r-ons. Smith. Warren nni I..m', assisted bv several ;ai'.:tr,-. h.ol p,acrd a y.'.-c :ne drip in an eiyat-inch p:pe line !:: n carries natural n.is from the I-amh c.m-i panv's first wed on the Mantau oil du'ne. 1 Wh.eii the .is was turued l:ok into t;, line two se.--:ons of pipe were Ko-.vn to p;e.-es. jague I fragment of pinn h u r l . in 1: tiirough th air in every direction. 're frayr.-nt struck Smith un i.-r the chin, shatter. -d his law. cut through his truu-ne and lo-ly.-d in the r-tf of his n-uth. also fon.-ir p two tph-ii from the lo we r .'aw i;ito t!ie roof of the mo :th. Ainll.'-r fracnent-siru-k W.i reti. w :io was forty feet aw ay. 0:1 l ;,e chin and red need h s low rr Jaw to a mass of broken bone ;md shremled fles'u. Jamh, who was seventy feei away, was struck on top ,.f the head bv a friKiuent and seu-n-i injurt-ii, the fa-'t trial he was not hilled hin; due to the metal striking him broad iile on instead of edew ays. Several other workmen were cut by bits of Iron. The three men most seriously injured were rushed to Howell by automobile, and to this place by train, a 1 r i v i n g twelve hours after the accident and in a very critical condition. Here surgeons used fahe work In building up the si altered jaws of Smith and Warren, and it Is believed be-lieved that the men not onlv wjii recover, but will not be seriously disfigured. The explosion of the gas line is the only accident of Its kind in the history of the Wyoming oil tieids and l:i t he recollection of the oldest oil men operating in this region. |