Show INJURED BY EXPLOSION little monte anderton Is victim exploded cannon cracker while playing with toys behind counter in fathers shop I 1 monte anderton the five years old son of will anderton was seriously injured by the explosion of a cannon cracker while in the jesen anderton meat market about 1 15 wednesday afternoon he sustained a contusion on the right temple a badly lan eyelid the bridge of his nose was mutilated in a bor horrible m manner anner and there were two ugly N wounds on the right leg about midway between the knee and ankle he will probably recover but there is danger of his losing the we use of his right eye As there were no witnesses to the accident it is impossible to account for the boys injuries mr anderton was in the rear room of the building when he heard the report of the ex aloson he hurried burned to the front room and found his gis son prostrate behind the counter with blood gushing from the wounds on his head bead he carried the boy to dr herberts office thinking that the wounds mound tad shad been inflicted by a gun an examination led dr herbert to the conclusion that the lads ads skull had not been fractured and that unless unexpected results follow he will not be deprived of the use of his injured e ee e fragments of toys and candy littered the floor near the spot where the unconscious boy was vas found by his father an inspection of these circumstances disclosed the probability ability viat fiat the bo be had taken the cannon cracker from a receptacle under the front tt aindow of the store where it had been stored away among a collection of toys the manner in which the lad ad caused the explosion will probably forever remain a mastery ms tery inasmuch as it is not knova how he could have secured a match for lighting the fuse it may be explained epla ined that the fuse of a cannon cracked was found on one of the show cases in the building and from a examination it was nas supposed that this had bad not been touched by fire |