Cimarron Valley Clipper (Coyle, Okla.), Thursday, June 12, 1913
One of the saddest accidents recorded in this section occurred Monday afternoon about 2 o'clock. Eddie and Herman Hamner, age 15 and 13 years, and "Cap" Berger 15, were playing with blasting powder, obtained from the elevator of this place, at the sand hill just north of the river bridge when the accident occurred which resulted in the death of Eddie Hamner. It would seem that the boys had a large charge of powder in the bank at the side of the road and were probably endeavoring to set it off with a paper fuse. Eddie, who was setting off the blast, also had a quantity of the powder in his pockets and when the explosion came it blew him backward down the bank at the same time igniting the powder in his pockets. He fell onto the other boys who were at the bottom of the grad burning them quite severely. Of course the unfortunate boy was crazed with pain and started on a run for the river. The Berger boy seemed to have a very good command of his senses and started in pursuit in an effort to strip the lad of his clothing, which he succeeded in doing after quite an effort, but not until the Hamner boy was burned almost to a crisp from the chin down, and here is also where the Berger boy received his worst burns. After the Hamner boy was relieved of his clothing, the Berger lad ran to the Ray place and told the Shoemaker boys of the accident, instructed them to bring clothing for the boy and hastened back. The poor boy was taken to the Shoemaker home where a physician was called who relieved his suffering until death came about midnight.
The Hamner boys' mother and the rest of the family live at Stillwater and the boys were here working for their brother-in-law, Sherman Banning, who is farming the Ermie Gabbert place, and Eddie worked some for Charlie Price. It so happened that Mrs. Hamner came down from Stillwater Friday for a visit. She had intended to return home Monday but was delayed on account of the rain, and was here at the time of the accident.
These are good working boys, but are of the age wen they possess a very imaginative and investigating mind and we often wonder that more boys of this age do not meet with a similar fate. Funeral services were held at Marena Tuesday and little Eddie Hamner laid beside his father and a sister who preceded him, and thus closes another sad chapter in the history of this community.
One of the saddest accidents recorded in this section occurred Monday afternoon about 2 o'clock. Eddie and Herman Hamner, age 15 and 13 years, and "Cap" Berger 15, were playing with blasting powder, obtained from the elevator of this place, at the sand hill just north of the river bridge when the accident occurred which resulted in the death of Eddie Hamner. It would seem that the boys had a large charge of powder in the bank at the side of the road and were probably endeavoring to set it off with a paper fuse. Eddie, who was setting off the blast, also had a quantity of the powder in his pockets and when the explosion came it blew him backward down the bank at the same time igniting the powder in his pockets. He fell onto the other boys who were at the bottom of the grad burning them quite severely. Of course the unfortunate boy was crazed with pain and started on a run for the river. The Berger boy seemed to have a very good command of his senses and started in pursuit in an effort to strip the lad of his clothing, which he succeeded in doing after quite an effort, but not until the Hamner boy was burned almost to a crisp from the chin down, and here is also where the Berger boy received his worst burns. After the Hamner boy was relieved of his clothing, the Berger lad ran to the Ray place and told the Shoemaker boys of the accident, instructed them to bring clothing for the boy and hastened back. The poor boy was taken to the Shoemaker home where a physician was called who relieved his suffering until death came about midnight.
The Hamner boys' mother and the rest of the family live at Stillwater and the boys were here working for their brother-in-law, Sherman Banning, who is farming the Ermie Gabbert place, and Eddie worked some for Charlie Price. It so happened that Mrs. Hamner came down from Stillwater Friday for a visit. She had intended to return home Monday but was delayed on account of the rain, and was here at the time of the accident.
These are good working boys, but are of the age wen they possess a very imaginative and investigating mind and we often wonder that more boys of this age do not meet with a similar fate. Funeral services were held at Marena Tuesday and little Eddie Hamner laid beside his father and a sister who preceded him, and thus closes another sad chapter in the history of this community.
Cimarron Valley Clipper (Coyle, Okla.), Thursday, June 12, 1913
One of the saddest accidents recorded in this section occurred Monday afternoon about 2 o'clock. Eddie and Herman Hamner, age 15 and 13 years, and "Cap" Berger 15, were playing with blasting powder, obtained from the elevator of this place, at the sand hill just north of the river bridge when the accident occurred which resulted in the death of Eddie Hamner. It would seem that the boys had a large charge of powder in the bank at the side of the road and were probably endeavoring to set it off with a paper fuse. Eddie, who was setting off the blast, also had a quantity of the powder in his pockets and when the explosion came it blew him backward down the bank at the same time igniting the powder in his pockets. He fell onto the other boys who were at the bottom of the grad burning them quite severely. Of course the unfortunate boy was crazed with pain and started on a run for the river. The Berger boy seemed to have a very good command of his senses and started in pursuit in an effort to strip the lad of his clothing, which he succeeded in doing after quite an effort, but not until the Hamner boy was burned almost to a crisp from the chin down, and here is also where the Berger boy received his worst burns. After the Hamner boy was relieved of his clothing, the Berger lad ran to the Ray place and told the Shoemaker boys of the accident, instructed them to bring clothing for the boy and hastened back. The poor boy was taken to the Shoemaker home where a physician was called who relieved his suffering until death came about midnight.
The Hamner boys' mother and the rest of the family live at Stillwater and the boys were here working for their brother-in-law, Sherman Banning, who is farming the Ermie Gabbert place, and Eddie worked some for Charlie Price. It so happened that Mrs. Hamner came down from Stillwater Friday for a visit. She had intended to return home Monday but was delayed on account of the rain, and was here at the time of the accident.
These are good working boys, but are of the age wen they possess a very imaginative and investigating mind and we often wonder that more boys of this age do not meet with a similar fate. Funeral services were held at Marena Tuesday and little Eddie Hamner laid beside his father and a sister who preceded him, and thus closes another sad chapter in the history of this community.
One of the saddest accidents recorded in this section occurred Monday afternoon about 2 o'clock. Eddie and Herman Hamner, age 15 and 13 years, and "Cap" Berger 15, were playing with blasting powder, obtained from the elevator of this place, at the sand hill just north of the river bridge when the accident occurred which resulted in the death of Eddie Hamner. It would seem that the boys had a large charge of powder in the bank at the side of the road and were probably endeavoring to set it off with a paper fuse. Eddie, who was setting off the blast, also had a quantity of the powder in his pockets and when the explosion came it blew him backward down the bank at the same time igniting the powder in his pockets. He fell onto the other boys who were at the bottom of the grad burning them quite severely. Of course the unfortunate boy was crazed with pain and started on a run for the river. The Berger boy seemed to have a very good command of his senses and started in pursuit in an effort to strip the lad of his clothing, which he succeeded in doing after quite an effort, but not until the Hamner boy was burned almost to a crisp from the chin down, and here is also where the Berger boy received his worst burns. After the Hamner boy was relieved of his clothing, the Berger lad ran to the Ray place and told the Shoemaker boys of the accident, instructed them to bring clothing for the boy and hastened back. The poor boy was taken to the Shoemaker home where a physician was called who relieved his suffering until death came about midnight.
The Hamner boys' mother and the rest of the family live at Stillwater and the boys were here working for their brother-in-law, Sherman Banning, who is farming the Ermie Gabbert place, and Eddie worked some for Charlie Price. It so happened that Mrs. Hamner came down from Stillwater Friday for a visit. She had intended to return home Monday but was delayed on account of the rain, and was here at the time of the accident.
These are good working boys, but are of the age wen they possess a very imaginative and investigating mind and we often wonder that more boys of this age do not meet with a similar fate. Funeral services were held at Marena Tuesday and little Eddie Hamner laid beside his father and a sister who preceded him, and thus closes another sad chapter in the history of this community.
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