The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-05
VICTIMS OE,THE DAY
Usual Quota of Burned Fin
gers and Faces Attend
the Celebration
COL. w. E. DODGE HURT
His Hand Burned, Friend Injured and
CoIoners Mastiff Killed by Great
Cracker ExpIosion-Many
Boys Suffer.
COL. w. E. DODGE HURT

The usual quota of acute celebration
accidents occurred yesterday and
about the same number Of fingers are
missing as disappeared on the Fourth
or last year. AS far as the gunpowder
was concerned there were no fatalities,
although the escapes from death were
many.
experience apparently will never
teach the small boy that he cannot al
low a half-pound of powder to explode
IN his hands without suffering severely,
ana large number of the accidents
1yeSterday@Wa due to the fact that
the small boy chung to the cracker,
when he should have been several feet
away.
The toy pistols which shoot 22-cali-
per blank cartridges were another
ITulttul source of injury yesterday.
Nearly every boy in the city secured
one OF these, and the number of pow
DER burns and wads that had, to be
aug out of faces and hands was
great. Many men and groWn-up boys
provided themselves with revolvers
Which they used to discharge blank
cartridges, and the doctors skillfully
extracted the powder from the injured
person. The inSidious mud can" was
in evidence all during the day, and on
several occasions when 1t failed to ex-
plode and Investigation followed, the
seeker after knowledge was struck
with the can and badly cut.
Col. w. E. Dodge Hurt.
One of the worst accidents of the
DAY happened at the residence of Col.
w. Il. Dodge. The colonel and a friend
from the East, Mr.. Holmes, We're shoot
ing OIL giant crackers on the lawn in
front of the colonels home, 631 Fair
mount, yesterday morning. Col. Dodge
Hghted large cracker and threw it
on the ground, a valuable mastiff dog
that was trained to retrieve started to
Dflng the lighted cracker back, and Col.
Dodge ran to get it away from him.
AS ne reached down to pick the crack
er up 1t exploded, burning Col. Dodge'S
nand severely and blowing a large hole
In the dogs neck, which killed him al
most instantly Mr.. Holmes, who was
standing a short distance away, was
struck In the eye. by piece of the
ire cracker and his eye was painfully
injured.
Nursed Light Too Long.
While celebrating with a mud can in
front of his home, at POS Robertson
street, Mike McDermott, in an attempt
TO nurse the light, which was weak,
received a goodly amount Of the DOW
der IN his face. DR.. Paul Cook was
called and spent an hour in picking
the powder from the flesh.
Willie Miller did not even get a
chance to get dressed yesterday morn
ing before he was injured His re
Volver went off while he was dressing.
and the wadding penetrated his right
hand. He had lent the weapon to a
friend Thursday, and when the friend
returned 1t to him in the evening it
was loaded, which faet1the Miller bow
did not know. His wound was an ugly
one, was dressed by DR.. A. w. Miller.
James Starr, forty years old, tried
TO light a small firecracker at his home,
at Cambridge, Mimi, Thursday even
ing, when it went off prematurely in
MS face and his right eye was danger
ouSly wounded. He was brought to
st. Luke's hospital, in this city; where
he is under the care of a specialist, who
hopes to save the eye
Another to suffer as the result of. the
Fourth was Julia Courtney, little girl,
who had both her hands painfully
burned by the explosion Of a large pin
wheel which she was attempting to
light near her home, at East Seventh
and Beech streets, on Thursday even
ing. The little girl was attended by DR..
Kinder.
Theodore Schipp, fifteen years old.
living at No. 8 Upper Levee, had the
feshy part Of his right hand badly
lacerated and torn. because he happen
ed to be holding thenhand over the
muzzle Of thirty-two- caliber revolver
when it accidentally went off. He was
taken to the city,ohospital, where the
wounded member was attended to and
dressed.
Robert MCGUIRE a son Of Philip Nc
CURE, the commission man, was walk
1TaCr ll XVNN IN 4,
and toying with a, revolver when it was
accidentally discharged when not ex-
pected, and as a result he received an
ugly wound on the palm of his left
hand. DIR. Mead was called and dress
ed the injured menber.i
While celebrating with a pistol yes
terday morning Adam, Clark, a small
boy living on the West Side road, shot
himself in the left hand with a blank
cartridge. He was attended by DIR. ".
J. Hawkins.
The accidental discharge of a blank
cartridge in a cane resulted in Willie
Arntzen, living at 521 Central avenue.
having his face and left eye spotted
with powder. DR.. Eshelby attended
him.
Mud Can Explodes in His Face.
r. w. Chase, machinist for The
G b e, was badly burned about the
face and left eye yesterday afternoon
as the result of a mud can explosion on
West Seventh street, near Walnut. Mr..
Chase was walking along the street
and noticed anothef person trying to
light a fuse attached to a mud can. The
fuse did not burn rapidly and Mr..
Chase went over to examine it, and
while doing so, the can exploded, filling
his face full of powder. He was attend
ed by DR.. Sweeney, who spent, nearly
two hours in picking grains of powder
out.
Frank A. Kirk, an insurance man,
was slightly buried on the ear yester-
day by the discharge Of n cartridge
near the Short line crossing. Mr. Kirk
was standing near the sidewalk when a
friend Of his, with the intent of scar
ing him, came up behind and discharg-
ed a revolver near his ear. DR.. Good
rich attended Mr., Kirk and picked out
the powder grains. ii
Powder and Toy Cannon.
A bottle of powder and a toy can