Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-02-09
Death BY the Hest Horrible Accident
on Record.

| 81 Record.
The Virginia (Nev.) Chronscie says:
About 5 O'Clock last evening one Of the
most extraordinary and horrible acci-
dents that ever happened on the Com
stock took place in the Savage carpenter
| shop. Here there is in use q steam
suger, which points towards the work
man and makes 1000 revolutions per
minute. 1t is . self-feeder, and any
thing that is laid against the point is
caught and thrown over its coils with
lightning-like rapidity. William Car
penter, the unfortunate victim, ut the
time mentioned was boring = hole
through stick of hard wood, about
three inches thick and eight feet long,
and was leaning his might against It,
under the impression that there was q
gauge attached to the machinery to pre-
vent the block going further along the
auger than the distance required. Sud-
denly workman near Carpenter OBJ
served an indescribable look or his face
as his body shot forward and doubled
over the terrible machine. II had pass
ed, like q fencer's sword, through his
stomach, and was protruding at the
back. He was literally impaled upon
the auger, which was churning his in
testines at the rate of from |, 600 to 1,5O0
revolutions per minute.
In the midst of this horrible agony
Carpenter seems to have maintained his
presence of mind, for he cast himself
backward and got off the anger, falling
to the floor as he did so. The most
terrible excitement prevailed among his
comrades in the shop, and there was a
rush to the PROSTATE man. The sight
must have almost paralyzed them. Car
penter was lying on his back, with his
clothes torn and twisted above the re-
/ giOn of his abdomen just above him
the deadly auger was still whizzing, and
clinging to it was mass of intestines,
the loose ends of which spread out with
the revolutions, and gave the anger the
appearance of 3 buZz-saw. The man
was removed to the bathroom and laid
out upon the floor. He was still cool,
and not q cry escaped him. His broth
er (the ex-City Jailer) was sent for,
and, on his arrival, he communicated
his wishes in regard to his business af-
fairs, and the disposal Of his effects, re-
marking, "my brother is an honest
man, and will do the right thing"
Presently it became evident that he was
suffering intense pain, and the physi-
clans in attendance decided that he had
better die under the influence Of chloro-
form. Before the drug was administer
ed he was told that he would never come
from under its influence alive. He
merely nodded, babe those about him
good-by, and in q few moments was
unconscious.
He lay in this state as calmly as o
sleeping child until after 4 O'Clock in
the morning, when the influence OF the
chl0roform passed of, and he opened
his eyes. He did not seem to suffer
much pain, and occasionally talked to
his attendants. He died at 5 O'Clock,
and, as those who saw him said, +" died
like man." His last words were, 81
am passing into the unknown" A
couple of hours later he was removed 10
Wilson 4 Browns undertaking estab-
lishment
| A Chronicle reporter called ct the
Savage works this morning, and in
spected the scene of Carpenters death.
THE bathroom where he died was being
washed, and the blood scraped up from
the floors. The most CHASTITY sight was
the boring machine. The anger which
did the work was covered with blood
for its entire length, and shreds of flesh
still clinging to il. A workman inform
ed the reporter that nearly sixteen feet
of intestines had been taken from it after
Carpenter was taken into the bathroom
to die. The framework was covered
with blood, and almost every thing was
spattered with it.
Superintendent Gillette has given Or
ders to remove every vestige Of the
mans death, and carpenter was TO
moving such portions the framework
of the machine as were sprinkled with