The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-07-09
ken0sha Boys Suffer From Burned
Faces and Fingers as a Re.
suit Of the Celebration
CROWDS AT CELEBRATIONS
Big Crowd Attends Celebration at Old
Settlers Grounds While Thousands
Throng the Picnic Grounds
About the City

Kenosha celebrated the Fourth OF
July in the usual noisy manner on
Saturday and as a result there is the
usual number Of burned fingers and
bandaged faces today. It was a great
day in Kenosha and between ten and
twenty injured people will have cause
to remember it for days to come. Fort
unately Kenosha escaped with no fatal
tiles. but there was many narrow es-
capes, The list Of injured reported by
the various doctors in the. city today
includes: NC ID - 4a
h steinbach, John, 726 Market street
Eye badly burned by a bolt from a
Roman Candle, shot by one Of his, com
Royce Homer p, hand burned by ex
plosion of giant fire cracker.
Il Vinegar, Ralph, 318 Chicago street,
eye burned with a fire cracker thrown
by one. of his boy friends. s..
Silver, Avery, 624 Chicago street, leg
and hands burned. by the explosion of
dynamite caps, in his. pocket. a.r
Ellis, Clyde, 415 Strong street, hand
burned by the premature explosion of a
skyrocket. sg. n
swandale, Upper, $50 Durkee aven-
ue hands burned by explosion of dyna-
mite caps.
Hopf, Miss Louise, $40 Exchange
street, both hands burned by gun pow
der from fire crackers. ne ~
Donahue, Mark, 651 Pomeroy street,
hand badly burned by premature ex-
plosion of giant fire cracker $50
I Williamson, Otto, 900 Park street,
hand badly burned by the premature
explosion Of fire cracker of giant
proportion. e rs sca go
Eichelman, Lawrence, sly Prairie
(avenue, hand burned by premature ex-
plosion of roman candle.
| Niederkorn, Nicholas, IT,, 438' Ash
land avenue, finger nails blown off by
explosion Of torpedo.
Grosvenor, Mrs. Louis, 301 Chicago
street, hand burned and split by proema-
ture explosion Of a roman candle.
In addition to these injuries a large
crowd had narrow escape from injury
on Main street near the Palica cigar
store when some little boy lit can
of carbide. The explosion was sufici-
ent to burst the top of catch oasin
but no one was badly injured.
There was the usual display of fire
works in Kenosha in the, evening the
most notable being at the Kenosha
Country Club where hundreds of people
gathered
In the morning large crowd of PEG
pie went out to Paddocks Lake to at
tend the celebration given by the Old
Settlers Club and fully three thousand
people were on the ground during the
day. There were all sorts of enter
tainments for the crowds at the picnic
and the principal address of the day
was made by Gustav Buchen of Madi-
son.
The members of the Knights of
Pythias and the Modern Woodmen went
to Waukegan and attended big picnic
at Electric Park at which both the
Forester team of the Woodmen and the
Uniform Rank Of the Knights of Pythi-
as gave exhibition drills.
There were picnics at all the pleasure
parks about the city and hundreds of
Kenosha people went to Ravinia Park
to spend the day.
Dealers in fireworks report that the
day was one of the greatest in the
history Of Kenosha in the matte. of
sales made and the streets of the city
were in condition to prove the state
ment. 1t will take several days to get
the effects Of the celebration removed
from the streets