The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-05

hurt There is not a brulse nor abrasion
on Cummings body, but he suffered so
intensely that it was necessary to ad-
minister opiates while the examination
was being made. 1t is feared that the
young man may be dangerously hurt in
ternallN.
Nothing could be learned as to who
threw the bomb toward Cummings He
was standing at Fifth and Market sreets,
opposite the new postoffice, when he was
suddenly struck in the abdomen. In
stantly the explosion followed. Several
persons assisted the injured man to his
feet, and he walked a short distance
where he was taken in charge by Officer
Goven and assisted to the central sta
ton. A physician could not be secured
and Cummings was hurried to the hospi-
tai. 1t is not believed that any one inten-
tionally threw the bomb at Cummings,
but rather that some foolhardy person
tried to frighten him by exploding the
bomb near him.
The intense suffering of the young man
is regarded gravely by tie hospital ply
sicians. Several times while the exami-
nation was being made Cummings faint
ed, seeming unable to bear even the
slightest touch about his stomach or abb
domen. An attempt will be made today
to more fully diagnose the case.
Cummings has been living in this city
but a short time. He resides on Broad
way, near Fifth.
HURT AT CHISAGO CITY.
Miss Eta Johnson, of Hamline, was the
victim of a cannon cracker yesterday
while on a Fourth of July excursion to
CEisago City. In company with several
friends, she went up in the morning to
spend the day. The party took along a
quantity of fireworks with which to cell
ebrate, among them a number of cannon
crackers of the short potential variety.
About in the afternoon, the young lady
lit one of the largest in the bunch with
the intention of firing it. The sputtering
of the fuse, which was short one, fright
ened her, and she neglected to drop it,
The cracker exploded while in her hand,
burning 1t severely and making q number
of ugly cuts. A fragment of the wrap
pings struck her below the right eve, in
flicttng a cash half an inch deep and
about two inches long. The powder was
blown into her eyes and face until her
forehead was covered with cuts. By
fortunate chance, she closed her eyes as
the cracker went off, and in this manner
probably, saved her sight. Her eyelids
were badly cut. AS soon as possible,
medical aid was procured, and the young
lady was brought back to the city on the
first train.
ONEI IAN SAOOt11 IWO.
The dangerous mud cam added two
more victims to the list of injured in the
persons of William Long, living at 200 East
Robie street, and c. Selby, living at 5G
East Robie street. The youths, each
eighteen years of age, were bending over
the can intent on the lighting of the fuse
when a spark dropped into the powder
In the fash that followed both young men
were painfully burned about the face.
Neither sustained injury to his eyes.
Their burns are not serious.
FOUND IT ANEW.
John sundrisky, living at 2A Thirteenth
street, threw big fire cracker into the
street. 1t didn't explode and he picked
1t up. The fuse sputtered and the boy
tried to throw the cracker from him.
but it almost at the same instant ex-
ploded, and he was painfully burned on
the right cheek.
WILL LOSE TWO FINGERS.
Tideman Severson, fifty years Of age.
living at &C Front street, last evening
held a giant fire cracker too long after
lighting the fuse and as a consequence
will lose the first two fingers of his right
hand. Seversons hand was burned and
somewhat torn by the explosion The two
fingers most severely injured were badly
injured man.
ROCKET JUST MISSED THEM.
While Mrs. James ]. Redding, living at
232 Thirteenth street, was sitting near the
second story front window of her home.
shortly after II o'clock last evening, hold
ing a young baby IN her arms, dead
skyrocket crashed through the glass. shot
across the room and partly buried itself
in the wall. The missile narrowly escaped
hitting the mother and child Mrs. Red
ding was badly frightened by the sudden
crashing of glass and the whistIing of the
stick as it passed, suffering severely from
a nervous shock. Neither Mrs. Redding
nor the child, however, were injured. If
is not known from where the rocket was
fired.
RUMORS OF OTHERS.
It was reported to the police last even
ing that 9-year-old girl, living on West
ern avenue, near Seventh, had been badly
hurt by the explosion of big firecracker
at Banholzer park during the afternoon.
The cracker is said to have been careless
ly thrown close to the child, and her