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Show uu JOHN BROWNFIELD VICTIM OF ACCIDENT Salt Lake, Juno 17 John Browns-field, Browns-field, a well-known mluerand mine operator of Boavor county, was. the victim of a serious and an but fatal accident Wednesday afternoon, from the result of which he now lies In the L, D. S. hospital In a critical condition condi-tion On the eighty-foot level or the Wasatch Wa-satch King mine In the Beaver Lake mining district, in Bplttlng a fuee preparatory pre-paratory to making a shot, a spark of fire alighted In a "box of dynamise caps. Tho result was an instantaneous explosion ex-plosion The hundred caps were blown Into the limbs and body of Mr. Brown-field, Brown-field, several of which entered tho thighs to a depth of several incbes, the wounds made being in some cases an Inch In diameter.- Tho .most disastrous disas-trous wound, however, was one received receiv-ed In the right eye, cnuslng Us ro-.moval ro-.moval at the hospital Friday morning, shortly after his arrival, accompanied accompan-ied by Dr. F. J. Burton of Mllford, who cared for the injured man from a few lotirs after tho accident until he, with assistants, operated upon the patient pa-tient In the hospital. Mr. Brownfield, during the ten or more years that he had operated mines In Beaver county, was acconnted one I of the most careful men employed In that hazardous business After being I perforated In a hundred or more dlf- ! ferent places, with one eye destroyed I 1 and bleeding .profusely, Mr Brown- field, unnsslsted, climbed the vertical ladder, eighty feet, which led to the surface. While his condition Is serious and his suffering Intcnri'e, Dr. Burton Is confident of ultimate recovery, provided provid-ed blood poisoning does not set in. oo |