Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-07-02 | Page 1 | 5 Injured with Fireworks

5 INJURED WITH FIREWORKS FIREWORKS' I o. o o 66 4 I ARSENAL MADE Of DY CRIPPLED HI BOY BOf EXPLODES Flames Spread Through Tenement Following Follow ing Blast G GIRL RL CHILD INJURED Fire ire Inspectors Inspector's Hands Mangled I NEW YORK July 2 United Press Five persons are in in hospitals hos hos- today after a Fourth of july July arsenal manufactured by a 17 year old crippled boy exploded and sp spread ead flames through the tenement in which he lived Philip began tinkering tinkering tinker tinker- ing with chemicals when he realized his disability would keep him from playing with other children His experiments were to reach a climax Wednesday with The biggest biggest big big- gest Fourth of July demonstration the neighborhood had ever seen The family was asleep when the seventy torpedoes got I tangled up with radio wIres and more than half of 01 them exploded Philip was hurled from his cot and suffered a fractured Mary Margaret old oId who W was s thrown out of bed In an anaa aa apartment and has internal inter inter- rial nal injuries FIve hours bours later Inspector Robert I Withers bt bf the fire department was completing his investigation Just Justas as he he was thrusting some of the I torpedoes into his his' pocket they ex- ex Withers Withers' hands were mangled mangled man man- I IEsther Esther 16 sister Df f Philip was burned n William wa was struck In the he I right e eye e by debris