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Show A Serious Accident. A most distressing accident- co-currod co-currod in Parowan on Decoration Day, resulting in n budly crushed and tracturod leg for tho littlo three-year-old daughter of Samuel Mortonson of that place. Tho family wero nt tho cemetery, and wero moving about inspecting tho tombstones, when tho little uiifi rau up and put her foot on the base of ono which wns just in tho course of orootion. Tho jar loosened tbo stone from its baso nnd it toppled ovtfr pinning tho child down by tho leg. When tbo biouo was removed, it wns found tbnt tho flesh wai badly mangled and tbo stocking pros6ed into the wound nud twisted around nnd boyond tho protruding pro-truding ouds of tlio broken bones. Tho wound wns Pressed as woll as possible nnd tbo little Fufrerer brought immediately to the hospital in Cedar. Dr. Middloton operated iu tho night, boring holes in tho cuds of tho bones and wiring tbem together, nnd dls-infeotiug dls-infeotiug tho wound as thoroughly ns POS&ible. Tn ounh n nnsn tlinrn in considornblo danger of blood poisoning, poison-ing, but tho child is apparently doing ns woll ns could be expected, and it Is hoped will recover without furthor trouble. |