Two Persons Are Injured While Working With Gun
September 26, 1924 - 100 years ago
Paul Williams, son of H. P. Williams, had a gun, in the barrel of which had become lodged, as he supposed, some bullets. He took the barrel to the Dan Hoover blacksmith shop yesterday afternoon, where he was heating it to melt the bullets. Suddenly there was an explosion from both ends of the barrel, and a part of a shell or some substance entered Paul’s throat, barely missing the carotid artery and lodging in his neck just behind his ear. Whatever the charge is, it was thought it should be removed, and he was taken to the sanitarium at Dalhart Texas, last night on Rock Island train No. 3, for an examination.
Frank Thompson, a farmer living south of Guymon, was in the shop at the time, and a charge from the other end of the gun barrel wounded him in the arm, several places in the face, and in one of his legs. These wounds were from articles in the gun, and no one seems to know just what there was in the gun barrel. (reprinted from the Guymon Herald)
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