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Show HAND TORN BY i RIFLE BULLET I Morgan Man Driven 65 Miles in Cold for Treatment MORGAN", Jan. 24. Driving 65 mJles to a hospital along roads drifted with snow with temperatures at 2G idcffree helow zero, after his hand had been partially torn away i the acel-I acel-I denial discharge of a rifle, were the . i i.-te . of n.-r.rv lb Iner. formerly -i Mors. m. now of liurnt Fork. Wyo. tielner had been ranching In Burnt Jjork for the last few years, and on Friday morning found a coyote .unong his sheep lb- hurried to the hour.e for his rifle, but it discharged as he lifted It from the scabhard. the bullet bul-let passing through the palm of his left hand, tearing away a portion of the thumb. a neighbor, to whom he went for assistance, offered to drive him to the hospital at Hock Springs. 65 miles away, using Heiner's automobile. The road was drifted in places, and the merourj stood In tho thermometer ,tt SG degrees below zoro. Several times oti the n ip it appeared is If tho driven must succumb to the cold Mr. Helner had been bundled up so as to be less xposed, and the work of diguing the automobile out of the snowbanks devolved de-volved on the driver. At the hospital It was found that Mr. Helner had to lose completely the second an.l third fingers of the left hand. The thumb remains, but with one hone removed, so that the thumb will be of little use, and this leaves only the Index finger and tho little finger of the left hand of use to their owner |