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Show MURIE LAD LOSES FINGERS & THUMB Remains Detective Rocket Breaks Boy's Arm and Prunes Hand Down to Two Fingers. , Tho eleven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Will Murio of this city wns seriously ser-iously hurt this (Friday) morning when he touched off the uncxplodcd charge of a Fourth-ofJuly skyrocket. Tho force of tho explosion broke tho boy's left arm between tho wrist and tho elbow, sliced off tho thumb bo that it held by n thread of flesh and blew off tho fourth and fifth fingers cemplafcdybeftMMMtagjtjMtU&j off thrco fingers "of thV right hand. Other children who were too near to tho deadly contrivance when it exploded ex-ploded were severely burned. It seems that the lad had dug tho infcrnnl machine up on the Fair grounds whoro it had dropped without with-out exploding during tho holiday fireworks fire-works display. Ho brought it home and touched it off in tho back yard in tho presenco of an interested group of little fricndB. Dr. Mncfarlano set tho broken arm and stitched tho hnnd together as well as possible, but the entire thumb nnd two fingers are missing. |