Show 1 strange Strang eti explosion masion Mo sion yesterday thomas myers the fourteen year old son of ambrose myers met with a serious accident ho ile was out in waterfall canyon with other boys A about out noon they grouped themselves es in the shade to rest and take lunch while whilo thus engaged one of the lads espied a strange object on the ground and on picking it up tip found it to be a metallic capsule or cartridge about one inch long and the thickness ofa of a telegraph wire he handed the object aroun dand when it readied reached the boy the latter thought lie noticed some rattling in the tho cartridge he ile shook it a couple of times probably more violently than he afterwards supposed for ero ere ho lie knew what yaa was going on oil there explosion and detonation andon recovering from the shock I 1 thomas found hid his hands bands deplorably I 1 lacerated and mutilated tho ilia explosion had blown off two fingers and the thumb of the left hand and the ends odthe of the thumb and the first finger on the tile rig right hand several odthe of the other boys had also received wounds around their faces and heads the mutilated lad went home bravely bearing hia his wounds he ile was taken to ur dr J X alien allen who with the assistance of dr E L G williams william t amputated the injured dig digits land and sent the tile youth homo hoano f feeling e el g a good deal more comfortable what the explosive WAS I 1 has I 1 not been ascertained nor is it positively known how it got there |