Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-07-20 | Page 1 | Accidental Shooting in a Camp

uu ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING IN A' CAMP' John Oman was brought in from a sheep camp in Park Valley last evening, even-ing, suffering of a gunshot wound In the left leg, Inflicted accidentally by a fellow sheep herder while extracting extract-ing a cartridge from a 38-calIber revolver. re-volver. The Injured man waa taken to the Bergess hospital for treatment. treat-ment. The accident occurred forty mlleB from a railroad and It required a day to get the wounded man to Ogden. The ball entered the fleshy part of the left thigh and passed through the leg below the knee, breaking ono of the bones. Mr. Oman states that the shooting was purely accidental, his friend having hav-ing no thought of shooting him. An effort was being made to extract a cartridge from the revolver and, while the gun was pointed toward Oman, who was sitting with his leg doubled up. It was discharged. Tho trip overland to the railroad was severe on the wounded man, but he stood It remarkably well. The wound was well bandaged at the sheep camp, which prevented excessive exces-sive bleeding.