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Show Mapleton Youth Seriously Injured In Dynamite Explosion in Canyon A Mapleton youth, Neil Jensen, 17, was critically injured Tuesday afternoon in a dynamite explosion, the second serious accident involving young men and Shigh explosives in this vicinity in the past few weeks. Two Springville boys, Ivan C. Russell, 15 and Verl Reed Van Patten, 16, lost their lived the first of June in a dynamite explosion. The injured youth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ruel Jensen, Mapleton, is at the Spanish Fork hospital, where his condition was described as serious Wednesday. He suffered facial injury with damage to his eyes, the exact extent of which could not be determined; cuts to his right arm and his lungs were filled with gravel from the explosion. ex-plosion. The accident occured about a mile and a half up Mapleton canyon can-yon Tuesday afternoon, when Jensen Jen-sen with four friends Paul Dibble, 19; Robert Jensen, 17, a cousin of the injured youth; Sammy Fullmer, Full-mer, 17, of Springville and Kent Carter, 17, of Edgement, set out to explode three sticks of dynamite, which it was reported Neil had had stored in his bedroom at his home for some time. The fellows planted the dynamite dyna-mite sticks near an old tree stump and fastened a fuse to them and after lighting it, retired at what was believed a safe distance, to wait for the explosion. When there was no explosion, Neil thinking the dynamite to be duds, approached the place the three sticks were buried and as he bent over the spot, the dynamite exploded sending send-ing the full force of the explosion into his face and upper portion of his body. He was rushed immediately immedi-ately to the hospital. Neil suffered an attack of polio sometime ago and it effected his lungs rendering him less able to cope with further serious injury resulting from the accident. |