Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1911 — LOSES FOUR FINGERS [ARTICLE]

LOSES FOUR FINGERS

By Explosion of Fife Cracker— James Meyer of Tolleston, Is Victim of Accident.

James Meyer, son of our expostmaster F. B. Meyer, who is now employed in his father drugstore at TWleston, while attempting to shoot a cannon cracker on the Fourth, lost four fingers of his left hand.

He had lighted the fuse and carried the cracker to the door, the screen door stuck, and while he was trying to get the door open the cracker exploded tearing off four fingers and ripping flesh from the palm of his hand.

The wound is serious and the danger ,of blood-poisoning from the gun powder is considerable. Meyers was taken to the Mercy hospital at Gary.