Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-18 | Page 17 | Most Wounded Man is Italian Soldier

MOST WOUNDED MAN IS ITALIAN SOLDIER One Hundied and Twenty Bomb Splinters Enter His Body; Makes Miraculous Recovery. ZURICH, March 17. The Milan correspondent cor-respondent of the Neue Zuerieher Zei-tunc Zei-tunc reports the miraculous recovery of an Italian soldier by the name of Fon-tero, Fon-tero, who is probably the most wounded man of the whole world war. The battle-scarred hero was brought to the military mili-tary hospital in Modena several months ago in an almost hopeless condition, but the surgeons succeeded in saving his life. He is now able to move about and will shortly bo discharged. The soldier belonged to a small Italian Ital-ian detachment which defended an advanced ad-vanced trench on the Carso plateau against an attack of numerically superior supe-rior Austrian forces. A liand grenade exploded near him and he was'atruc.k by 120 splinters. His body looked like a sieve when he was found, by the ambulance am-bulance corps and it was feared he would die before he oould be transported transport-ed to the hospital. To the astonishment of the surgeons, the much-wounded man, a giant in sice and strength, rallied quickly after he left the operating table, although only part of the grenade splinters could he removed from his battered body. He has lost his right evo, his right ear, nine teeth and a part of his lower jaw three fingers of his left band and two toes of his right foot. His left arm was fractured frac-tured in three places and his right foot Ln two.