The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-15
news.
MET fR|GATFUL DEATH
6sbastisn Calus Got Caught ON
= SHAFT.
BATTERED TO- A JELLY
HIS ~0uspenders Caught ON . Set Screw
and He Was Whirled Into Hter-
nity-Every Bone Was
Broken.

= Sebastien Calus, better known as
Sam Celus. as his name appears on the
payroll of the company. never knew
h hit him. He was dead before a
shrek Of pain could leave his broken
n mansled body.
The accident, frightful n horribly
Ing in Its details. happened yesterday
.~afternoon at 1885 o'clock. at the on
centrator. Calus was attending to his
duties as Jig man. and wal practically
alone at the time of the accident. There
was no one very neal the place where
he was at work.. which in fact was
hidden to a great extent by the sur
rounding machinery. In this recess
the shafts and betting. and 1t was
on the eccentric Jig shaft that Calus
met his death. The shaft passes be-
tween heavy upright timbers. Over
head are more beams n the space
between the shaftand overhead timbers
Is hardly wide enough to permit the
passage of a mans body. Close to the
upright t!mbers on the left runs the
belt, the wheel having IS or so revolu-
tions a minute.
Just how the accident occurred Is and
will always remain unknown. No n
-asav it. 1t is supposed, however. that
q Calus carelessly was crawling through
a small opening just below the eccen-
trio shaft, n in so doing the set screw
or the collar caught in his suspenders,
where it was found still entangled
when he was cut down..
: Whatever was the cause, it's work
was frightfully quick. and even before
the unfortunate man could have been
aware that eternity was staring him in
the face, he was dead. There was not
even time for a cry of fear or pain.
Death must have been instantaneous.
The accident was first discovered by
another employe who was standing
some distance away, but who CHANGED
to look up at the moment, probably,
that Calus was whiried to his death
over the shaft. The sight which met
hts gaze froze him to the floor with
horror, and bereft him of the ability to
speak. At almost the same m ].
Z. Rentz, Foreman Jerry Harrington
and Peter Mckenzie, working on the
stamp floor above in placing some new
machinery. heard a peculiar knocking
on the floor and noticed the screen
launderys filling up They rushed dow
the steps. and when they reached the
spot found the belt off, the shaft
stepped and an almost shapeless mass
of flesh and bones twisted around it.
Tha body. torn. limp, lifeless and mu-
tilated. was quickly d~isentangled and
laid on The floor.
Then IL was seen what terrible ex-
ecution had been done. The face was
bruised, although retaining its form.
bur the entire top of the head had been
knocked off by the force with which he
struck the beams above the shafting.
One foot and part of a leg had been
torn from the body, the rest of which
had been battered out of resemblance
to anything human. Every bone was
broken. The clothing had been almost
entirely torn from the body and grue-
some patches of brains and blood
spotted the rood work and were scat
tered around o the machinery.
The body was taken to Ehret's UNDER
taking rooms and arranged for burial.
Sebastien Calus was "a years of age
and unmarried. He lived by himself
in a cabin between Chestnut and Birch
streets. He was born near Gent, West
Flanders, in Belgium, quite near the
birth place of Father Alleys. He came
to his country in 1891. and settled at
Portland, where he met L.. #. Ver-
berckmoes, now of this city, and who
speaks in terms of highest praise of
Seattle, from which place he came to
Anaconda some eight months ago.. OBJ
tanning work quite recently at the con-
contractor where he met his death. He
wac of an open, upright conscientious
disposition and was well liked by many
friends who mourn his untimely TAX
Ing OF. He WAS a member of the order
of Foresters, who will probably have
charge of the funeral. With the ex-
certion of a sister in Wisconsin he had
no relatives in this country.