Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1895-10-05
A MOST HORRIBLE DEATH
An Admission Machinist Helper
Crushed to a Jelly.
LADY FALLS INTO A WELL
seyenty-FNe Feet Deep and Lives New
Gold Discoveries in Cleburne
County.

Admission, Oct. ESPECIAL John
Scott, young white man employed in
the machine shops of the Admission Pipe
and Foundry company as a machinist
helper, came to a horrible end this morn
ing. He had gone up a ladder to oil
some overhead machinery, when a por-
ton of his clothing caught on set screw
of rapidly revolving shaft. The I'M
fortunate man Immediately called to the
men beneath him to have the engine
stopped. but it could not be done in time
to save him. The shaft carried him with
it in its rapid revolutions, whirled and
wound him around and around. beat
him violently against the heavy frame
work and machinery near and where the
engine was finally stopped that which a
Few seconds before was a healthy, buoy
ant, hopeful young man was a lfeless,
bloody, misshapen mass of flesh and
bones. The jugular vein had seemingly
been bursted or cut and it also seemed
as If every bone in his body had been
broken. Mr.. Scott was a new conner to
Admission, and had been in the employ Of
the Admission Pipe and Foundry COM
pany only short while. He had wife
and one child.
Miss Hattie Reynolds of Choccolocco.
this county, had a singular experience
and miraculous escape from death yes
terday afternoon. She was drawing a
bucket of water, when she accidentally
let the handle of the MINDLESS slip from
her hand, and it struck her on the elbow
So great was the pain and so sudden the
shock that she sat down on the well curb
and, fainting, fell backward into the well,
which was rs feet deep. The cold water
revived her and she managed to keep
from owning until assistance came ami
she WIS drawn out, little worse for her
fall and ducking
Mr.. r. e. Merrill of Heflin informs
the State Herald correspondent that dis
coveries of new and rich veins of gold
continue to be made in Cleburne county
Near Arbacoochee, on section 7, a shaft
was sunk Wednesday, about 100 feet
southeast of the one containing the rich
vein of gold discovered a few months
since, to depth of AZ feet. The same
vein was struck but the gold was found
in much greater quantities In fact, the
rocks are said to be sticking to the gold
instead of the gold sticking to the rocks.
Other rich veins have been found and
more gold mining Is being done now in
the Cleburne fields than at any time be-
fore In fifty years.
Messrs. VIII Trap and Frank letters
of this city, who are attending Oxford
college, jumped off of a fast moving cleo
trio car in Oxford day or two since,
fell and were painfully bruised up.
The friends here of Hon. Hillary A.
Herbert, secretary of the navy, will en-
deavor to get him to deliver in Admission
an address on the financial question be-
fore he returns to Washington
The bushes done by the Admission post
office for the month of September was
greater than that done in any of the
three years previous, and continues to
show gratifying increase in volume
Miss Mary c. MILESTONE has returned
to her home in Birmingham, after a visit
N In ri dc bon
Capt. and Mrs. S. r Nunnelee of Selma,
who have been spending the past two
months in East Tennessee passed
through Admission today en- route home.