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Show CHILD'S LEGS CUT OFF BY MOWER BLAI1K- Near the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe-Eaton, Joe-Eaton, at Bunkerville, Nevada, last week their five-year-old son met witli a terrible accident, the child losing. both feet by being caught in the blades-of blades-of a mowing machine. The child was-given was-given emergency treatment and Uiav rushed to the hospital at Las Vegas.. The details of the accident that come to us are as follows: The little fellow seeing other children playing in a pomegranite orchard went over to play with them. The ranch owner wa.-mowing wa.-mowing alfalfa, which grew in the orchard, or-chard, and the child, seeing the machine ma-chine bearing down on him stepped but not far enough, and being hidden by the alfalfa was unobserved by the driver, the blades of the machine snipping snip-ping off the little fellow's legs just above the ankles. Luckily he war-thrown war-thrown outside the machine or would have been literally cut to shretfs. . Mr. Eaton, who was working at tli Katherine mine, was wired and the message was received that night. A fellow worker drove Mr. Eaton to Lun. Vegas during the night. Surgeons iiv charge of the case say that the boy will be able to walk when fitted witlv artificial feet. Kingman (Ariz.) Mlnw.. |