The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-06
THOSE WHO WERE HURT
Usual Number of Fourth of July
Casualties.


Saturdays list of casualties indicates
that the celebration of July Fourth was
participated in as generally as is the
custom in Topeka. The increasing vio-
lence of up to date fireworks probably
accounts for the rather unusual num-
Der of the injured. No fatalities nlarred
the pleasure of the day although sew
eral were very narrowly escaped So
far as reported the list of Fourth OF
July victims is as follows:
VIII Burrell, Alfred Burrell and David
Underwood Parkdale; burned by the
explosion of a quantity of powder while
the three lads were engaged in gather
ing it from the ground. Underwood
was most seriously burned he ran 10
Shunganunga creek and jumped in, the
flames enVelopinS him before ne reach-
ed the water.
Solomon Wilbur, a negro IS years of
age shot with a % caliber rife by Louis.
Rutherford, aged 10, at Fourth ana
Wilbur's left lung and he was taken TO
/ Christ hospital. 1t was case OF dluh
know it was loaded
Roy McNish, years old. at the john
son house; hand torn and burned py the
! explosion of % caliber blank Whiie
he held his hand over the muzz1e.
Willie Crocker of COffeyville, Kansas,
STAYING at 521 Topeka avenue; botn
hands cut and burned. He tried TO hold
down a tin pail while a giant cracker
exploded under it.
Bruce Wallace; powder burned at l.
A. A. by premature discharge OF a PTS
toll
Henry Swan; face and eyes burned by
the explosion of a blank cartrloger ga
Geo Heise; finger nail blown OH anu
shot in right leg with a cartridge wac:
Paul Anderson, years old, burned by
| firecracker.
Abe DeMoss, 6 years old, 701 Madison
street; shot in hand with blank dis
Lob
The young daughter of Samuel Gun
ningham on Lake street; finger mutlla-
ted by the discharge of toy pistol.
Bow named Cornell at 4Ol Adams
street; end of thumb torn Off by the eX-
| plosion of a cannon cracker
| Ross Clinton. 219 Taylor street, ear
and scalp burned by the discharge of
toy pistol o4.
face and eye burned by the explosion OF
Jesse Jesse Hickey, Parkdale, shot in hand
with toy pistol.
Iced Wesser of Emporia, spending the
Fourth in Topeka. face and eye burned
by explosion of a cannon cracker.
Carol Cooper, Topeka avenue; shot
in eye with a toy pistol
Abe Ellis, face and eyes burned by
explosion of cannon cracker.
Frank Thomas, 8 years old; shot in
hand with toy pistol.
Two other children, one 21s years and
the other years of age, were treated
at the Santa Fe hospital for burns and
wounds received from toy pistols.
| Cecil Barber, 5 years old, Topeka
avenue and Tenth street; shot in hand
by a blank
Clinton Peterson, aged 8, visiting Mrs.
/ Davidson. at 400 Topeka avenue; hand
torn by discharge of a toy pistol.
H E. Stewart, three miles southeast
of Topeka hit in breast by a fragment
of cartridge shell. He exploded the
shell by striking it with hammer
James Ross, 80 years old, Thompson
Vile: finger torn by discharge Of a
| blank cartridge.
Robert Corwel, East Gordon street;
shot through the hand by the wad of
| a blank cartridge.
George Kirkendall, colored, driver for
Mutual Ice company; cut over the eye
| by a fragment of ice. While taking ice
from the end of his wagon his team
started suddenly at the discharge of a
| cracker and threw him to the ground
behind, the piece of ice striking his
/ head.