St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-22
MANNED BY MACHINERY.
Careless Boys Suffer the Loss of Their
Fingers.
NO WAY TO PREVENT IT.
Constable Minea Puts Away the Crown
West st. Paul in
Chunks.

Saturday morning lad named Mar
tin Ungal, who is employed in the fac
tory of Horn q DAM, had three fingers
of his right hand converted into mince-
meat in tin-cutting machine. Dr..
Sigler. who amputated the fingers,
killed two birds with one stone by am-
putating at the same time the finger of
Anton Vitonshek, who was injured in
the same factory a few days since
There have been no less than a dozen
boys manned in the factory, and
putation there will not be
whole boy left OH the West side inside
of three months. Mr.. Danz was seen
by GLOBE reporter yesterday and
questioned regarding the causes lead
ing to the alarming number of acct
dents in the establishment. st is en-
tirely due to careleSsness," said he.
THE boys, if they show the least in
clination to be careful, can have no ex-
cuse for getting hurt. The fact is that
they begin fooling with each other and
looking about them while operating
machines, which would sever heads
just as easily as fingers. We do every
thing we can for the boys who
get hurt, but what we want to
do is to prevent accidents if possible,
and our machines are all of the most
modern type and are operated by boys
i'll all parts Of the country, and you
never hear of such an epidemic of acct
deItS as we have had here in the last
few months. We may not have another
accident in years. but it looks now as
though the people were getting chewed
up all the time
B. Minea has resigned his position as
West side constable in favor of William
F. Arbuckle.
Mrs. j. II. Gamble, who has been
visiting on the West side for week,
returned to st. Cloud yesterday.
A force of men commenced few days
since to remove the DeloS street bridge
supports, under instructions from the
city engineer. After making few
moves, and lingering in the vicinity for
half day, the men quit work without
having completed the joe. and have not
been seen IN the neighborhood since.
In West st. Paul police circles the
past week was phenomenally quiet
one, there having been but seven ar
rests for the entire period. a bold, bad
boy named Mcmahon contrived in some
manner to get gloriously full before 9
O'Clock yesterday morning, and, becom-
i1IS HCiNSs WIS )ldCco III luG DuCdS
street refrigerator to cool off.
Hon. G. H. Lienau has returned from
trip to the Pacific coast.
Justice McMartin has returned. from
Claremont. where he was called to at
tend the funeral of his sister.
RoundSman Costello has been granted
all assistant by a recent order of the
council.
Work on the foundation of the new
Bethany Congregational church is pro-
crossing rapidly.
A social and card party was held last
evening at the residence of James G..
McNulty on Oakdale avenue, at which
large number of people of both sexes
were. present. The early portion of the
evening was devoted to the rendition of
Instrumental and vocal selections.
Several scratch games Of ball were
played on the flats yesterday.
The ladies' auxiliary Of the Y. NJ. G..
A. will meet at the rooms tomorrow
afternoon