Show victim of gun accident recovering jack hicks 18 son of mr and airs homer hicks of elsinore is receiving treatment at the sevier valley hospital in richfield for injuries received monday near elsinore town when a shotgun was accidentally discharged by a companion who was riding in the rear seat of a car being driven by young hicks the force of the shot as it passed through the back of the front seat carried a jagged piece of metal capping from a spring in the seat into the upper part of jacks back where it lodged against a rib with the metal went some of the cotton and other packing from the car seat but only two of the small shots the discharge of shot glanced passed through the car seat at a different angle and scattered part of it cutting a hole in the door lining and denting the metal door the metal removed from the youths body was an inch or more in diameter some bleeden bleeding in the chest c cavity and some al air r under the skin indicated the lungs had been punctured however it is expected the patient will recover all right according to latest leports from the attending physician it was a lather unusual accident jack who was taking his fathers place as a supervisor of pea picking at elsinore for two or three days had left the hicks farm at brooklyn to go to a pea field north of elsinore three friends tray larsen larue winget and zell case had accompanied him and thinking they might see some rabbits as they pa passed ased through the fields had taken their guns tray and barue larue were seated in the rear seat holding their guns jack told them if the guns were loaded they had better unload them trays gun was loaded and as he went to unload it he touched the trigger and the gun discharged the boys succeeded in getting control of the ca car r with the aid of the injured youth and hurried jackeo jack to the hospital jack did not loose consciousness it was only half an hour after his son had left the farm that the father received a phone call telling of the accident strangely enough just as lie he was cautioning his younger son about dangerous ways of carrying a gun |