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Show ft I I v IJmL Two Men Are Injured by Being Struck by MeialjRim 1T - New York, May 23. Two New York business men areunder the care of surgeons today aJa result of Injuries Inflicted by tne steel rim of an automobile auto-mobile tiro thrown Into tho air when the tire exploded. The men, strangers to each other, were hurrying hurry-ing down Fifth avenue last night nnd were abreast when the tire of a passing pass-ing automobile burst with an explosion explo-sion Ilk a shot from a gun. The tire flew oft down the street a block, whero it tangled itself in the legs of a cab horse, throwing the animal to the pavement ' At the same time the metal rim of tho wheel was tossed thirty feet Into space, and, In coming down, It encircles en-circles the bodies of the two men, drawing them closevtogethcr and hurling hurl-ing them both to the sidewalk Spectators thought a shooting had taken placo. Tho police found one of riie men unconscloufT from concussion of the brain The -other was bruised from head to foot. ) |