Cost Him A Hand

For a long time Pierson M. Stackhouse, a conveyaucer, has been experimenting with a fire extinguishing chemical. It is probable that he will give up bis idea of revolutionizing such compounds, if not altogether, for a time at least, because disaster overtook him with one terriflc swoop yesterday afternoon. Stackhouse believed that he solved the problem he had so long studied over, and yesterday afternoon he started ont from his house, 2446 North Tenth street, to make a test. He strapped the cylinder to his back and carried the section of rubber hose in his lef t hand. Hia family stood at the door, and a friend, who had aided him in his experimenta, walked close beside him. The inventor intended to see how far the chemical would be thrown, and he fearlessly xeached up with his right hand to turn on the stopcock at the top of the cylinder ia order to set the chemical to work. At that instant there carne a terrino explosión, which scared the wita nearly out of residents of the whole neighborhood. Windows rattled ominously, and crockeryware was demolished in some of the closets of nearby houses. Women and children, with blanched faces, rushed from their homes in terror, thinking that an earthquake or worse had come. Stackhouse was throwu violently to the sidewalk. The top of the cylinder had blown off, and his right hand hung by a few shreds from his wrist. He lay unconscious on the sidewalk as hiswife ran shrieking out to him, and a crowd quickly collected to see what the explo sion meant. The inventor was taken to ;he Episcopal hospital, where it was necessary to ampútate the shattered