Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-07-07
FEW WERE INJURED !
FOURTH OF JULY ACCIDENTS NOT
AS NUMEROUS AS USUAL.
Frank caIlen Shot in Eye and Injury
to Hand Sustained by George Lloyd
Only Serious Accidents Reported
Much Recklessness Displayed.
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
There were but few accidents Sat
urday considering the number of peo-
pie In the city and the extreme reck-
iessness displayed on all sides. Late
in the afternoon Frank Callen had his
left eye badly burned by a blank
cartridge fired close to his face and
this was perhaps the most serious ac-
cident of the day. George Lloyd, the
young son of Mr.. and Mrs. D. ]. Lloyd,
52S West Ottumwa street, was also
injured with blank cartridge, his left
hand being severely injured by an ac-
cidental discharge.
Mr.. calIen's Injury.
Mr.. Callen was in company with a
number of his friends walking up
Main street, when he was in
jured. He was with a party of trav-
cling men and they had been going
through mimic square dance to the
music furnished by the Schwabkey
band on the corner of Market anu
Main streets, but few minutes before.
When the band stopped playing the
party started west on Main street and
when in front of the First National
bank they passed buggy in which
were man and woman whose identi-
ty was not learned.
AS Mr.. Callen passed the buggy the
woman raised her arm and he
turned around just in time to be
caught, fair in the face by the dis.
charge of blank cartridge from a
pistol. The injured man was taken
to the Office of DR.. E. G. Shelton and
it was found that the eye was badly
burned. DR.. Shelton stated this morn
ing that the sight of the eye would
not be destroyed but that the mem.
Der would cause considerable trouble
The affair was purely accidental but it
was careless act on the part of the
woman to fire the gun at such close
quarters.
Shot in the Hand.
George Lloyd was injured by the
accidental discharge of a pistol OF
small calibre in which he had been
shooting blanks. The accident hap
pened about 4 o'clock near the young
mans home. The shot entered the
hand the wad lodging near the back
of the hand. He was taken to the OF.
tumwa hospital where the physicians
found it necessary to cut deeply in
order to extract the wad. The young
man will be laid up several weeks as
result of the accident.
j. s. Mitchell, secretary of the
commercial association, Saturday
morning while Fearing miami, off the
boord VOL, ano1os;1o ~ onn,;.,a1
grounds in order to make a larger
the gTounds suffered savara ini,,ry
TO his right hand hv rnnnine large
splinter into the flesh between the
th,imb and flrst finger The wound was
quite a painful one and was treated h,
DR.. A. 8. Williams.
Arthur Gileer q 1)-year-old son ot
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. GiIger. 912 East
Fourth street. while plaving with q
loaded 80 caliber revolver. shot a hole
through the side of his thumb a little
above the base of the nail. The bullet
did not strike the bone and a sore
thumb and the loss of the nail will be
the only bad result of the accident.
Horses Deafened.
Two horses are reported deafened as
result of the explosion of cannon
crackers on the Fourth The driving
horse used by DR.. Charles Huband in
his practice and the gray horse used
In the team driven to the bakery wa
gon of M. s. Ballagh are both report
ed to be as deaf as a stone" 1t is be
lieved that the injury to the horses
rary.
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