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Cannon Explodes with Fatal Results

HE IS UNCONSCIOUS AT THIS WRITING

A sad accident occurred near Kingston Sunday afternoon by which a young life may be terminated. A number of boys had assembled at the home of Mrs. Burd and were amusing themselves firing off a cannon made from a piece of pipe. During the last shot the cannon either burst or flew up and lodged the contents in the head of Alexander Burd, producing a wound that will probably terminate fatally. Drs. J. E. Pebbles and Blackburn were summoned and found the injury was in the back part of the head on the right side. The skull was broken in two places through which gray matter of the brain was oozing. A gash three inches long was cut through the scalp back of the ear and he had received several minor wounds. The physicians gave him every attention possible but he has not yet regained consciousness. From the nature of the wound, it is thought that the cannon burst. Later-The boy was take to the Westmoreland hospital Monday morning for treatment.

Alexander Burd, the boy who was injured by an exposion of a cannon made from a piece of gas pipe, and who resided near Kingston Station, died in the Westmoreland hospital at 4:30 o'clock, yesterday evening.

Married, On Thursday, the 16th uitimo, by James Kecnan, Esquire, Mr. Simeon Burd, of Youngstown, to Miss. Mary, daughter of Mr. John Kerns, of Derry township.