Don Carlos Haddock
Paris Post, 12 August 1920, page 1
The people of Paris, Bloomington were shocked Sunday morning when news reached here of the accident of Don Haddock, who received the contents from one of hte barrels of a 12 gauge shot gun, while hunting chickens in Dry Canyon, two miles from Bloomington. As a result both eyes were shattered and one leg was amputated.
A Ford car containing Don, Darwin, Bryan and Grover Haddock, all brothers and Delora Nelson and Leslie Christensen, all left Bloomington at 5:30 Sunday morning for Dry Fork. With little success some of the boys decided to return to the car and wait for the others. In the meantime, Don, had returned before the other boys and had got in the car with his gun beside him, in the front seat, loaded but the triggers down in safety. He had attempted to back the car to turn around when the door came open allowing the gun to fall out. This caused the discharge of the barrel into Haddocks leg and face.
As the boys approached the car, they heard the cries of help from Don, who was lying with his stomach and arms over the front seat of the car. He was brought to the Paris Emergency Hospital and four physicians were summoned. Don Haddock is the son of ex-probate Judge E J Haddock of Bloomington and is 28 years old. He has a wife and two small children. Haddock served nearly a year with the American forces on the Mexican border and was also in the European conflict.
As a result of the accident his right leg was amputated and one eye lost, and the loving wife, his parents and brothers are praying he will gain sight from his one eye. A specialist from Salt Lake will arrive Sunday to make an examination.