The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-03-05

AFs1eBrruL DsAfa.-The ReeseRivel
Reveille of the God inst. gives the fol
70 wing particulars Of an awful acciden
which occurred on Tuesday last:
Between and o'clock yesterday afternoon
q friehtful accident happened at the Manhat
tan mill, BY which man named Hugh Lewis
met with an appalling death. 1t was part o.
Lewis duty to oil the machinery in the anal
RsmatinR room, and about 8 o'clock he went
under the platform upon which the pans stand
for the purpose of oiling the running gear
The platform 10 some four feet above the
ground and the timbers supporting the plat
form, and the various parts of the propelline
machinery, so fill the space as to require care
in moving about. 1t is believed that fully
half an hour elapsed after Lewis went under
the platform before he was missed and found.
Alderman Love came into the room and in
ouired for Lewis, to whom he was about to
give some instructions, and at the same time
he observed that one of the settlers had stop
ped revolving. He sent a man under the
platform to ascertain the cause. who returned
and reported that the belt had slipped or been
thrown off the drum, and that he heard a
dragging and pounding noise. Mr.. Love gave
the alarm and caused the engine to be stop.
ped, for be had foreboding that an accident
had happened to Lewis. As sooI as the en-
CINE had stopped several workmen with light
ed candles made their way rapidly under the
platform to the counter shaft which drives the
m machinery attached to the pans and settlers,
when they beheld an appalling spectacle.
Lewis, who was tall man, quite six feet high,
was literally wound round the Shirt, except
his legs; which hung from the shaft to the
ground his right arm was crushed and
around the shaft !; his head was bent close to
his body outside of the shaft; his right leg
was broken and the flesh torn from it, and
his right foot was broken and mangled. The
lower part of his body was bare. for his pant
aloons had been torn and whipped of, as we'll
as his boots, BY the revolutions of the shaft,
which are at the rate of fifty per minute.
His body was SO firmly bound to the shaft by
his Jumper and shirt that the men were oblig
ed to use knives to cut them in pieces before
they could extricate it. When taken of he
was warm, but his neck was broken and his
heart was still, and he had been dead for some
time. We went into the place this morning
where the frightful accident occurred. and
saw the pieces Of his clothing, his boots, aid
his oil can lying there. The vacant space Is
greater around this part of the shaft than else
where under the platform. The shaft is four
lnc0eS In diameter, IS tIlut less tndu t~o
feet from the ground floor, about two feet
from beam overhead, and about two fee:
and half from timbers in font OF and behind
it and nearly on the same level. His body
must have revolved in this space, his foot
striking against the ground and the timbers
It each revolution, for nearly half an hour.
At the instant the accident happened the I'M
ortunate must have been engaged in oiling
he bearing Of the shaft, near which there is
collar containing several set screws which
project from an inch and a quarter to an inch
md half, and it is supposed that his jumper,
which he wore outside of his pantaloons, |
:aught on one of these screws, and that find |
ng his clothing caught. he threw his right |
,rm over the shaft around which his clothing |
md body were wound. His death was un.
instantaneous. Lewis has been
at the Manhattan mill for long |
lime, and was . sober, faithful workman. !
He was a native of Wales and between A and
10 years of age. We could not learn anything
his relatives. The Coroner was
o hold an inquest over his remains at noon.
he result of which we shall publish as soon
S il is known.