The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-13
WHIRLED TO DEATH.
Louis Kuhne Gets Caught
in the Machinery of
Ernest Gothberg's
Factory.
i sICKENING SPECTACLE
His Horrifed Fellow WOrkmen See
His Brains Scattered in All
Directions.

Louis Kuhne, a fifty-four year old German
employed as a tool maker at Ernest Goth-
bergs brass finishing shop, No. Ill Gator
avenue, Greenville, met death in most
shocking accident at twenty minutes
past eleven o'clock this morning.
Kuhne was working at one of
the machines in the shop when
the belt which connected It with the shaft
above slipped from the pulley. Kuhne So
cured ladder and placed it so that hs
could put the belt back in its place The
shaft was revolving at the time, and kuhne
tugged and pulled at the belt, but could not
place it on the pulley. He gave up the
task and concluded to have the shaft stopped.
FATAL INDIGESTION
He started to come down the ladder and
when about half way down he resolved to
try again He again assembled the ladder
and had no sooner reached the top when bis
fellow workmen heard a shrek and
saw his body flying about in
the air Kuhne's clothing had IN SONS
manner become entangled in the pulley and
belt and he was hurled around at lively
rate of speed. At every revolution his head
struck against the ceiling and in less time
than it takes to tell the story his head was
mashed to pulp.
His fellowworkinen were at first so horri-
fed at the sight that none of them thought
of having the machinery stopped until
Kuhne's bleeding body had made more tina
dozen revolutions with the shaft. When the
wheel was finally stopped the bleeding body
dropped in heap on the floor. The head
was mashed to a pulp, and the right arm was
broken in four places. Blood was spattered
everywhere The ceiling where Kuhnes head
struck at every revolution of the shaft was
stained a dark red, and here and there were
pieces of flesh chnging to the WOODWORK
The machine at which Kuhne had been
working but a few moments before was dyed
with his blood.
Undertaken Zeiger was summoned and he
removed the body to his establishment on
Ocean avenue The blood was flowing from
the crushed head at such a rate that Aelger
had to convey the body to his place IN
a rubber blanket. Mr.. Gothberg ordered
the factory shut down as soon as the body
was removed, and it will remain closed until
tomorrow morning, Kuhne boarded with a
family at No. II Greenville avenue. He
has a daughter residing in New. Y Hork and an
effort will be made to locate her.
FRIENDS IN THE OLD COUNTRY.
Mr.. Gothberg is grief stricken over the
accident as it was upon his advice that
Kuhune decided TO come to this country.
Kuhne and he resided in the same town in
Germany and worked side -bg~side at the
brass trade, when Mr.. Gothberg en-
barked for America to strike out for
himself he told Kuhne that if he
met with success he would send for him.
Gothberg was here but few months when
he was sufficiently advanced to employ help,
and he sent for Kuhne. This was many
years ago, and up to the time of his death,
Kuhne always regarded Mr.. Gothberg as his
warmest friend.
Mr.. Gothberg has been rather unfortuna te
of late, a number Of accidents having taken
place in his shop. The accident OF this
morning, however, is the first one to result
in death.