The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-03-25
AN Arm TORN OFF
Bad Accident in Hawaiian Gazette
Co., Press Room.
A YOUNG HAWAIIAN MANNED
Caught In the Betting - Carried
Around Till Flesh and Bono
Parted - Cared for.

There was a shocking accident in the
press rooms OF the Hawaiian Gazette
Company yesterday afternoon. Will
lam Leleo. native boy in the employ
of the concern. lost his left arm. The
member caught in the betting and was
twisted asunder ut the middle OF the
muscle. Leleo is at the hospital. lie
is weak indeed The hurt was a great
strain and the reaction n determined
assault on robust constitution. The
boy was in excellent health and was
temperate. His store OF vitality stands
him in good stead now. He will pull
through, but IL will be many weeks be-
fore he can be about. An amputation
was performed at the Queens Hospital.
where the young man occupies a cot
and is receiving the best attention.
In the press room were Kinslea.
Boisse and a number OF assistants.
| Leleo. member OF the force for sew
eral years and well acquainted with
his duties as helper. went aloft to- a
platform. as he had done many times
before. to place a belt on a pulley. The
12-H. p. gas engine was running and
a couple of cylinder and couple OF
small presses were in use. Leleo's left
arm became engaged between the bet
and the pulley and such was the
strength of the machinery that he was
carried around for three revolutions.
Then the arm parted and he fell TO the
platform in a sitting posture. kinslea.
Boisse and others acted at once. Kins-
lea stopped the engine and Boisse the
lpresses.
Leleo's detached arm was fastened to-
the main shaft by the belt, which had
snapped just as the arm was ground
: off. The suffering boy was lowered to-
a table and cared Cor in the best man
ner that those about him could know.
He was not rendered unconscious. but
was unable to tell how It happe1ed.
Everything was at high speed and the
accident was so quick in its action and
so unexpected by the boy that there
was not left in his mind any impress
: sion of the details. Leleo had n beau
tiful arm and hand and the member
so roughly torn from his body looked
like a bronze cast as IL stood out from
the metal. 1t was afterwards discov-
cred to have been badly bruised.
Though the skin was not opened. The
, wound to the body was n friEhtful one.
: Sticking from the stump of the arm.
the center of n mass of torn and
mangled flesh. was the bone about an
inch in diameter and with an irregular
fracture. coming to a point This was
at once covered. The arm was removed
: from above. wrapped up and delivered
5 to the police department. The wound
for the surgeons was covered.
}. \ number of physicians were called.
: There appeared without delay Drs.
Wayson. Murray. Herbert and Hum
= phris. \ temporary dressing was
placed and DIR. Humphris remained TO
accompany the boy to the hospital. II
was proposed to use n hack TO carry
: Leleo to the hospital. but DIR. Hum
q phris would not allow this for the rea-
son that the sitting up or the jolting
might start bleeding that would be ser
ious at least. If not fatal. II was q
remarkable thing about the accident
/ that the bleeding amounted to so very
little. This was accountable from the
y fact that the manner OF Severing Ia,
arm had changed the positions OF ths
D. arteries and had so bundled them as q
- stop a flow OF violence.
Twenty to thirty OF the employees o
the company had come TO the scene
Their first knowledge that there hat
been an accident was in hearing the
n contact OF Leleo's body with the cell
'e ing as IL was carried around ant
n around. \ crowd that finally mum
d bered not less than 500 gathered out
.t side the building in the pest Office lane
N The new police wagon. upon request
n was ordered by Deputy Msrshal Hitch
1t cock. II was out to give the horses 8
i run, but was soon found by couriers
dispatched by the Deputy Marshal ant
came to do it's first service OF the char.
acter. Leleo was carefully placed upor
the litter and was soon at the hospital
r He went in charge OF Or. Humphri.
and was accompanied by his especial
friend. VIM. Kekei. at whose home In
Kaumakapili he has lived.
II was decided by the surgeons that
the necessary operation should be per.
/. formed at once. The amputation was
made at the shoulder by Drs. Wood
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