GEO. GREEN'S OLDEST SON INJURED

GREEN

Posted By: Stacey McDowell Dietiker (email)
Date: 3/14/2004 at 21:36:19

Independent Patriot
Lamoni, Iowa
July 29, 1897

Mr. Geo. GREEN's oldest boy, aged about 12 and a neighbor boy unluckily came
into possession of a quantity of gunpowder Tuesday. They sought to ignite it
by using a live coal; but the powder not "going off" readily, they got down
with their faces near it, and blew the coal. The explosion at once came
resulting in burning the GREEN boy about the mouth, nose, ears, and all over the
face. His eyes are both swollen shut and his sight endangered. Dr. SHERMAN was
called, but it is impossible to tell at this writing what the exact extent of
the permanent injury, if any, will be. The other boy was burned also, but not
so severely.

Copied by Stacey McDowell Dietiker
February 29, 2004