Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-12-26
A HORRIBLE DEATH,
n Man Ground In = Breaker-Anothsr
Dies from Horror

Dies from Horror.
BROOKLYN, \. V, December ga
gang Of 'longshorsmsn were yesterday
taking raw sugar ont of the hold of the
steamer State Of Alabama, as she Law at
the South Second street WILLIAMSBURG
pier. She came to that pier after she had
got Oft the mud bank in the lower bay
upon which she ran aground ss she was
entering the harbOr. Part of her cargo
was for the Brooklyn Sugar Refining Com.
pAny which has Its refinery at the fost of
South Second street. At noontime the
longshoremen knocked of and hsytened
into the big refinery building to wash
their han1s preparatory to taking their
dinners. They crowded about large tank
on the hrst floor. There were more men
than there were accommodations for. On
one side OF the narrow platform on which
the men stood was great breaker" that
revolved in pan into which the raw,
lunpy sugar was thrown to be broken nm
and converted into stesming syrup. From
this pan 1t was forced through pipes to the
twelfth door Of the building, where the
refining process is carried on. There was
no sugar or syrup in the pan at this time,
and the revolving breaker, with its rows Of
orlstling knives, was on the point Of being
stopped.
CROWDED FROM THE PLATFORM.
just how the dreadful accident occurred
is notss yet determined, but is supposed to
have been the result of the erowding and
Josting Of the men upon the platform. A
shrek was heard above the Changing the
machinery, and Thomas Walsh, one of the
longshoremsn, was seen by his horri6ed
companions to fall from the platform into
the space where ths breaker" was still
swiftly revolving. In an instant he was
wedged between beam Just above the fan
and the een:kniyes with which the ma
chime was studded. Then he disappeared.
One Of his companions quickly thrust q
heavy beam between the spokes of the
wheel and stopped It. The steam was at
once turned Of and the top of the great
pan lifted of, when Welsh's body could be
seen at the bottom, crushed and msugled
beneath he breakers.
The afrighted 'lougshoremen were re
luctsnt to descend into the pan and Fred
erick PRO, foreman Of the melting gang in
the refinery, was summoned. He went
down and released the body, which was
then hoisted out and laid upon the plat.
form, blanket being thrown over it. 1t
was almost cut in two in the middle and
presented a horrible spectacle.
6ILLED 81 THE SIGHT.
Ii Was observed that Foreman PRO was
white as sheet when he climed out OF the
pan. Before he was sGmmoded he was
about to sit down to his dinner, but in q
weak voice be remarked to one of the men
as he handed him his dinner can that he
could not eat then, and directed the man
to put the can near the boiler, that 1t
might be kept warm. Then he went
slowly up to the floor above, saying that he
would look afterthe placing ofs new dynamo
machine. which was to furnish the power for
the electric lighting. He had Just reached
the top of the stairs, when he tottered and
fell to the floor without a word or moan.
He was picked up, but his pulse had ceased
TO beat. A doctor that was summoned
said the man had died instantly Of heart
disease. The sight Of the 'longshoremsns
mangled remains had been too much for
him. His body was removed to his late
residence at No. 81 South First street BE
leaves q wife and four children. Walsh
lived at No. l9 Hamilton street, New York.
An inquest will be held on the bodies OF
the two men 10 day.