BOY KILLED BY ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE OF REVOLVER IN HANDS OF YOUNG PLAYMATE
DANA JONES, SEVEN-YEAR-OLD LAD, SHOT THROUGH STOMACH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON BY GEORGIE BISSELL — INJURY RESULTED IN DEATH.
Dana, the seven-year-old son of J. A. Jones, a Great Northern train dispatcher was fatally injured when he was shot through the stomach and liver by Georgie Bissell, son of Geo. Bissell. The accident happened Wednesday afternoon about 3:30 o'clock on Roach avenue back of the Eldon White residence, where the boys had gone swimming. The gun was owned by thirteen-year-old Chester Jackway, who had handed it to the Bissell lad a moment before.The little injured lad at first hardly realized that he had been hurt and he stood for several minutes after the bullet had struck him. His companions soon realized that the little fellow was horribly injured, however, and he was picked up and carried to the Bissell home by the Bissell and Jakway lads. Mrs. Bissell assisted in carrying Dana to the Lytle hospital nearby. Two surgeons were called and an operation was performed at once. They found that the bullet had passed thru {sp} the pyloric opening of the stomach and thru the liver, lodging in the back, but no attempt was made to recover the bullet. A great deal of blood was found in the abdominal cavity. The boy died at nine o'clock last night.
Ward County Independent, 6/19/1913
