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Show REMARKABLE, CASE OF Y01IN8 BECK OF GREENVILLE Thoremarkable case of Charles Buck of Greonvllle, who was so seriously seri-ously burned by an explosion of gun-.powder gun-.powder several months ngo, is continuing con-tinuing to show through what great suffering and distress a human being be-ing can go and survive. Tho young boy was burned so bndly that for throe weeks he was hanging bo-tween bo-tween life and death. Tho tcrriblo nn-ture nn-ture of tho woumds' are not to be described, de-scribed, yet the boy is now doing well and promised to be around agnln In n few weeks. For flvo weeks following tho accl-dont, accl-dont, CharleB was unconscious of all about him .He moved his burned arms Itlfiilly and cried almost constantly. The nttendlng physician diessed his wounds only after great self-control, so touching were the condition nnd the blind appeals of the boy who wasted to skin nnd bone. The flesh sloughed off, and he was left In a most pitiable condition. About ten days ago, he took a change for the better. Today he talks nnd acts as normally? as he possibly can .It Is truly remarkable the fight he has made for life and health. The attending physician says that In time, though scarred badly, he will again bo about. |