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Show Horribly Injured. J. W. Abbott was terribly injured, having both bauds blown oil", by fie explosion of a blast yesterday after uoon. Abbott Is tbe owner of a mine in Ogden Canyon, about ten miles east or this city. Abbott was at work at thymine as usual yesterday, and had loaded a hole with a heavy charge cf giant owdcr. He lit the fuse, aud waited what he supposed to be a sufficient time for tbe blast to go off". Not hearing anv n-iort, the gentleman gentle-man went to the hole, and was In thu act of applying a liuht t the fuse tbe second time, when tbe explosion ex-plosion occurred. His bands were directly over the hole and they were literally torn to pieces by the flying rocks. The injured man scrambled to his feet, and walked a quarter of a tulle to where another man was working. At a glance the man saw what h ' ' happened, and roJe to Wilson's sawmill saw-mill for assistance. A wagon wa procured, and the wounded man taken t his residence, No. C4J Twenty-fourth Street. Dr. Perkins was summoned, and discover d that both bands were blown ofl"JutleIow the wrist. Am-pu'atlott Am-pu'atlott will ba necessary, liutth-doctor liutth-doctor concluded not to perform thf openliou just at tint time. Abbott is a married mtn. and is about 55 years old. Standard. |