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Show Playing With Giant Caps Causes Serious Injuries To Two Rockville Boys Wednesday Morning ROCKVILLE, Utah. Playing with giant caps just before 10 a. m., Wednesday cost Wilbur Jennings, nine-year-old son of the late Gt'orge Stephen Jennings, his right eye, as well as helf of his thum and first two fingers. Awaiting the arrival of their father, George Stephen Jennings' bofly by ambulance from Salt Lake City for burial. Wilbur and his brother Carl, aged seven, were at the home of their aunt, Mrs. Charles O'Brien, a few rods from their own home. In their play they found two giant caps which they assumed were discarded used shells from a small calibre rifle. Carl pocketed his and Wilbur lit a match and put it into the one which he had laid on the cement step in front of the house where they were playing. The explosion brought the family to the scene and the Salt Lake morticians who had just arrived with the body of their father, rushed the two boys to Dr. Clark Mclntyre at Hurricane, who advised their being be-ing taken to Cedar City for X-ray and special treatment due to Wilbur's Wil-bur's injured eye. Carl received only slight surface burns and abrasions. Wilbur's right eye will be removed re-moved at Cedar City this (Thursday) (Thurs-day) morning. It is possible he may lose the entire second finger, and he has numerous surface injuries in-juries on his chest. Doctors state the boys are fortunate to have escaped with their lives. Just how the giant caps came to be where they found them is still a mystery. |