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Show PAYSDH Z. mm IN MISHAP Stoil Stevens' Skull Fractured AVhen S t o ve Explodes; Froze1!! Pipes Cause Accident; Acci-dent; Mother Suffers Shock PAYSON Stoil Stevens, 23, suffered a fractured skull and severe shock at the family fam-ily home in Payson this morning morn-ing at 7:30 o'clock, when he was struck in the forehead by parts of the kitchen range, which exploded due to frozen pipes, shortly after the fire w3s, tft Young Stevens was assisting his mother, Mrs. Rilla Stevens, in preparing pre-paring breakfast when the explosion explo-sion occurred. A. large piece of iron from tbc stove struck Stevens in the forehead, rendering him unconscious, un-conscious, i His mother, who was standing nearby, was .uninjured, but ia suffering from severe shock. Neighbors, startled by the explosion, explo-sion, rushed to the Stevens home and took the injured man to the hospital. An operation was performed per-formed at 9:30 o'clock, and reports from the hospital indicate that the young man has only a fair chance for recovery. , According to neighbors of the Stevens family, the kitchen range was blown to pieces, and all of the windows in the house were shattered shat-tered by the explosion. |