The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-03-28

An ARM TORN OFF
Bad Accident in Hawaiian Gazette
Co., Press Room.
4 YOUNG HAWAIIAN MANNED
Caught In the Betting Carried
Around TIN Flesh and Bone
Parted Cared tor.
(From Saturday, DailyD

press rooms OF the Hawaiian bdLell'
Company yesterday afternoon. Will
lam Leleo, a native boy In the employ
Of the concern, lost his left arm. The
member caught In the betting and was
twisted asunder at the middle of the
muscle I,eleo is at the hospital. He
is weak indeed. The hurt was a great
strain and the reaction a determined |
assault on a 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 1t 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.
I.eleo. 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 belt on a pulley. The
12-H. =. 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 sitting posture. kinslea,
Boisse and others acted at once. kins-
lea stopped the engine and Boisse the
presses.
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 for in the best man
ner that those about him could know.
He was not rendered unconscious, but
was unable to tell how 1t happened.
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 a beau
Gful arm and hand and the member
SO roughly torn from his body looked
like bronze cast as ID stood out from
the metal. II was afterwards discov-
cred to have been badly bruised.
though the skin was not opened. The
wound to the body was a frightful one.
Sticking from the stump OF the arm.
the center Of a mass of torn and
mangled flesh. was the bone. about an
inch in diameter and with an irregular
fracture, coming to point. This was
at once covered. The arm was removed
from above, wrapped up and delivered
10 the police department. The wound
for the surgeons was covered.
A number Of physicians We're called.
There appeared without delay Drs.
Wayson, Murray, Herbert and Hum
phris. A temporary dressing was
placed and DIR. Humphrls remained ia
accompany the boy TO the hospital. 1t
was proposed to use hack to carry
Lele0 to the hospital. but DR.. Hum
phris would not allow this for the rea-
son that the sitting up or the joltins
might start bleeding that would be SER
ious at least, II not fatal. II was a
remarkable thing about the accident
that the bleeding amounted to so very
little. This was accountable from the
fact that the manner OF scvering the
arm had changed the positions Of the
arteries and had so bundled them As to
stop n flow OF violence.
Twenty to thirty OF the employees of
the company had come TO the scene.
Their first knowledge that there had
been an accident was in hearing the
contact Of Leleo's body with the cell
ing as 1t was carried around and
around. \ crowd that finally num-
bered not less than 500 gathered out
side the building in the post Office lane.
The new police wagon, upon request
was ordered by Deputy Marshal Hitch
cock. II was out to give the horses =
run, but was soon found by COuriers
dispatched by the Deputy Marshal and
came to do its first service OF the char
acter. LeleO was carefully placed upon
the litter and was soon at the hospital
He went in charge OF Or. Humphris
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 amputatlon was
made at the shoulder by Drs. Wood
Cooper and Humphrls. This took but
a short time and then the poor boy was
tnrned over 10 the nurses. The Gazette
Company will look after him during
his confinement and after his recovery
lhe dCCluful was OF llt sOIl lnhl OC'
ours once in while in any establish
ment whore there is machinery.
Ieleo Is boy of wonderful courage
Al no time did he complain of his in
0uri"s. In replying to questions he saiC
that his ribs, back and legs were hurt
lie was In collision all over, but for
funatcly no bones were broken othc
than tho one wrcnched apart. HI
shirt was torn from him, exhibiting
fine chest while lying on the tabl
In the press room he asked for waite
several times, asked where he was I,
be taken to, but groaned not once.
The manned boy Is q years Of age
lie IL an orphan, His only relativ
here Is Miss Alice LoleO a Young lad
who makes her home at Kawaiaha
Seminary and who Is perhaps hes
known as an organist, having long ful
nished music for the choir at Kawala