New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-07-08
MANY FINGERS SGORCHED
Youth Of New Ulm Celebrated in
Royal Style.
Several Touched Business End OF
the Explosives.
Doctors Kept Busy Dressing Their
Smarting Burns. #

Smartlng Burns.
Some of the younger patriots came
to grief through their energy Satur-
day. New Ulm had almost enough
Fourth of July CASUALTIES to stock
metropolitan celebration and there are
number of youngsters who are now
wearing their limbs and features in
honorable bandages. Singed fingers
and burns Of every description were
the order of the day and a few serious
cases have been reported. The first
accident was in the morning to a Z
year-old son of Emil Rachel The lit
tie fellow was ,vying with his compan-
ions IN shooting fire crackers and was
furnishing no end of enthusiasm until
one of them exploded in his hand; a
piece of burning paper setting fire to
his trousers. He scurried home but it
might have Jared badly with him had
not Albert Kiesling caugh the scream
ing child and extinguished the blaz-
ing garments. Dr.>J. H. Vogel dressed
burns on his right hand and leg.
+ Little George Loheyde was injured
in a peculiar manner. He withstood
the bombardment of the day like a
veteran and came out unscathed, but
in the evening he was hurt. It came
about through his carrying a bunch
OF fire crackers in his blouse, for as he
was discharging a Roman candle his
reserve ammunition was ignited and he
sustained a painful burn across the
abdomen. e@ 49,. =.-.
A lead-pipe cannon proved the un-
doing of l7-year-old son of Arnold
Gulaen. He was printing the artillery
for an unusually telling shot when
suddenly it exploded, scorching all of
the exposed parts of his body. His
hair and eyebrows were singed, his
face and neck scorched and his right
hand and arm severely burned DR..
G. B. Weiser attended.
Louis Roth, the l3-year-old son of
John Roth, the Klossner merchant,
kept his powder in tin can and him
self in too close proximity whe n the
crash came. In some manner spark
dropped into the improvised cassion
and the result nearly cost him his
right eye. When the smoke cleared
away he was found to have been very
badly burned about the face DR..
Weiser was summoned and removed
several grains of powder from the eye
ball. The effects, however, will not be
serious and he will not lose the use of
the organ. -.
Louis Hoffman,, aged Is years,
knows how it seems to face belching.
cannon. His piece was of the toy
variety but when it exploded prema-
turely it did considerable execution.
He received the charge of powder full
in his face and for a time was com
pletely blinded. Sunday a physician
removed several particles. of the ex-
pIoslve from his eyeballs and also
from the skin about his nose and
cheeks. His experience will not cost
him his sight but it was painful in the
extreme +..@s. III. 4
In addition to the above there were
any number of minor accidents. Al
most every boy could sport a burn
more Or less painful and by evening
they We're a very smart set. In the
state at large an amazing number of
CASUALTIES are reported, there being
percentage of injuries which would
relegate the ordinary battle to the
rear. There are upwards of l,200.
cases where serious injury was sus-
tanned and in few of these the hurts
will prove fatal.
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