Linn County KS Archives News.....Terrible Accident: Ettie WHITEMAN, 13 years. December 3, 1881
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The La Cygne Weekly Journal December 3, 1881
Linn County
Saturday
December 3, 1881

On Saturday last, Ettie WHITEMAN, aged thirteen years, daughter of Mr. John
Whiteman, living abotu nine miles from La Cygne, was the victim of a singular
and distressing accident. She was holding a dynamite powder cartridge in her
left hand, picking it with a pin, when it exploded, tearing away part of a thumb
and badly injuring two fingers. Dr. R.G. Mendenhall was summoned to render
needed surgical assistance. 
 

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