Kauai County HI Archives Obituaries.....Asato, Seikei February 19, 1922
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The Garden Island, Lihue, Kauai, Tues., Feb. 21, 1922
ASATO, SEIKEI
BOY KILLED BY DYNAMITE CAPS.  Seikei Asato, a Japanese boy aged nine years, was 
killed last week in Waimea, and Harry Lyman, a Hawaiian, aged nineteen, was 
seriously injured when some dynamite caps that Lyman is said to have been 
tinkering with exploded. According to the story told the police, Lyman had a box 
of dynamite caps and was opening one of them with the box nearby. The Japanese boy 
was watching him. The one in Lyman's hand exploded, setting off the rest of the 
box. Lyman received the full force of the explosion and was struck all over the 
face and body by the exploding caps. He was struck in the left eye by one of the 
caps and will lose the sight of that eye. His face and body appeared as if he had 
been shot at with a shotgun loaded with buckshot. He will recover. The Japanese 
boy received several serious wounds and died of shock two days later. Dynamite 
caps are very dangerous playthings and as is generally the case in such accidents, 
it is the innocent bystander who pays for the folly of someone else. 


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