The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-30
HIS LEG TWISTED
 OFF BELOW KNEE
Deans Weaver ofSeIma Suffers
 from Horrible Accident
MAY NOT SURVIVE SHOCK
Was Out Hunting in a Cart When He Was Thrown Out, His Foot Catching In Wheel and Being
 Literally Twisted of.

Selma, November 29.-(special. .)-with his leg literally broken off between his knee and ankle, Deans Weaver lay four hours in an old field about six miles from the city yesterday waiting for medical as sistance and suffering untold tortures until weakened by the loss of blood he became unconscious of pain.
 The young man, who is the eldest son of the late Virgil Weaver, has been prac- tically a cripple since his birth the bones of both legs being diseased. The left leg, which was hurt in the accident yesterday. was the least affected by the malady and that 1t had to be amputated lends double horror to the sad story The young man was out alone hunting in two wheel cart and the wheel of the vehi. cle going down in a deep rut he was thrown out. his foot going between the spolkes of the wheel and catching on the shaft The horse wrung the leg off be- tween the ankle and the knee leaving the foot attached to the knee joint ny only a few tendons and about two inches of flesh.
 A little negro boy saw the accident and hastened to the home of Dr. W. C. Phillips, about a half mile away, for assistance Dr. Phillips was in the city and the boy came on to town, where Dr. Skinner was found and dispatched out to where the unfortunate young man lay.
 MT. Weaver was taken to Dr. Phillips house and word sent to the city for two other physicians to assist in the amplta- ton, as 1t was quickly apparent that the lin.h would have to come off. 1t was midnight before the patient was eonsid. cred sufficiently over the shock to permit of the operation and he had lost so much blood and the fracture was so complicat- ed that grave doubts are entertained if he will live through the night.
 The unfortunate young man is very popular and the news of his misfortune has cast a damper over his friends today.
 Site for Government Building.
 The site for the government building in Selma has been decided upon by the assistant secretary of the treasury, but whether the price asked by the owners of the lot will be given or condemnation proceedings instituted is not known. The lte is on the corner of Lauderdale and Alabama streets opposite the new court house. It is 165 feet on Lauderdale and 15O on Alabama and belongs to MT Eu- gene Robbins and Mrs. John A McKin- non. The special agent sent to select the site recommended it's acquisition, pur- chase or condemnation, and further re- cites that the lot with the house on it is given in for taxes for 5000, claimed to bc 80 per cent of its value. This is only partly true. The Robbins lot with the house is given in for $3OO0 but thus does not include 63x120 feet on Lauderdale nor a lot 30 by 165 on Alabama street, owned hx- Mp hn int are confident that if lad quad damnum' proceedings are instituted the awarded will be fully as much If not more than the lot was offered to the government, viz; 11,500 This amount Is the full l5 per cent of the amount appropriated for the government building, the total amount appropriated being $75,0O0. The Robbins lot alone was purchased by him a few years ago for $470o
 Negro Has Peculiar Death.
 Aleck Clay, a negro, about 35 years of age, met death in a peculiar manner on Friday night at the Buckeye Cotton oil Mill.
 Seed were being shifted about o'clock at the mill and the negro was on top If the pile, which was about twenty-five or thirty feet deep. As the seed are con- veyed through a big square hole in one eiu or the store house, makes a tGn- nel wide at the top and gradually narrow ing down to the size of the aperture at the bottom. Clay was warned not to get too near the edge of this tunnel or ditch, but In some manner he disregarded the warnings, and went to his doom.
 Nhe last seen Clay and another negro were left in the seed room while the third boy went out to get some waser for them. When he returned with the water Clay had disappeared and the re- maining negro in the room, who was standing about ten feet back from him wien the boy went out, said that he had turned his head for a few minutes and when he looked again Clay was no where ts be seen.
 Assistance was quickly called for and the conveyor shut down. The mill hands wen. to work with a will, but despite every effort, frantically made. it required twenty or thirty minutes before the body of their companon was exposed to view Then 1t was seen that it was too late. Death had come by suffocation.
 The boy had his pitchfork in his nand when he went down Into the seed and when found he still had it clutched in his