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Show " FOE S ; OX, a Boy- Scout j . Tc,v. Si-" .'-rirove. Utah, who n''m-V-H I'n-i"4- ' by aPP'yinS first j aia ,!vi as taught "'f Scout- craft after hsviu; been accidentally ;: 1 1 shot in the leg. j ! 1 i-' v.i WS. .v .. t . . ; n " v v ' v IE SO! SUES LIFE SCJpiFT Applies Tourniquet lo His Leg After Accidental Shooting of Gun, Tho efficiency of Boy Scout work In saving life w;tH recently given a test by L,ye;in Johnson, a Boy Scout of Pleasant Urovc. Utah. "While driving an automobile, automo-bile, Sout Johnson had the lower part of his leg shot away by the accidental discharge of u shotgun. He. immediately made a tourniquet of a piece of his overalls, over-alls, stopping the flow of blood an taught him in scout era ft , n nd enabling him to drive to help bffore he bled to death. The story, which was received yes! er-day er-day by Oscar A; Kirkham. scout: executive, execu-tive, irom II. A". Svenson, scon t-leader of the Manila ward scouts, to which troop .Scout Johnson belongs, reads as follows: "I j.vean Johnson, a Boy Scout of the Manila ward of the U. D. S. church, and the, son of Irving and Emma Johnson of Pleasant Orove, in coin pa ny with four men, started on his way In hunt along the shore of I'tah lake. Tho men were in two passenger cars, and Jvyean drove ci truck in tho rear. , "Thinking he might see a rabbit whi-.ls he could shoot along the wayside, Jjyeaj. placed his shotgun near by hini. "Whe i going over a bump t he ha miner of th gun hit t lie running board and discharged dis-charged . shooting oi'f part of the right leg of L.yean three inches below tho knee, and right In the center of the leg, . Tho blood began to flow freely and squirmed for a distance of from four to five feet. "Knowing that delay would cost him his life, and remembering what hfid been taught him m first aid work in scout-craft, scout-craft, L-ycan immediately tore part of his overalls off and mad,e a tourniquet to scop the flow of blood. He used a piece of sagebrush to bring pressure to tho tourniquet, tourni-quet, and, holding it with one hand, drove with the other until he, reached his fattier a half mile away. The tourniquet, whivh was twisted just above the knee, stopped the flow of blood, and, after being given another twist, was held in position until tho boy cculd be taken to the hospitaK "There it was found necessary by i?)e doctor to amputate the leg below the knee, but the physician said that if the boy had lacked presence of mind to make the tourniquet he would have nowoubt fainted immediately from loss of lood, and would have bled to death before helr reached him. "For two days, as. it was. the doctor did not think he would live, but said nothing better could have been done for the boy than he did for himself under the circumstances. The bandage the boy made was kept on until, after the operation." |