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Show ILEQ NEARLY TORN FROM BODY Ogden Fireman Suffer Severe Injur, lee In Basement Fire Ocden-Tho right leg of J. M. Whit ton, 87, a city fireman, was nearly torn from his body Monday morning when became tangled In a coll of hose fire In tho Fulton Drug company's tMcment at Twenty-fifth street and "ncoln avenue. Whltton was hurried the hospital, where It was said thai ' leg was severely fractured and the "wments and musclos torn loose. HU lt leg was also Injured. Whltton's work Is on tho hoso cart wfleu the department answers a fire It It bis duty to commence the "reeling of tho hoso and attach It to "W flro plug, ne had started thli oration. Other men wero racing Uie owe to tho blazing Dasoment when " reel Jammed. Whltton's right loa "M within a twist of tho hoso nnd at we siraln whipped tho noso lino taul hi, ne!ubor w'as nearly wrenched from u body. The flro was extinguished n nominal loss. |