The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-24
TORN TO SHREDS BY GIN AND YET LIVES
FARMER IN ETOWAH COUNTY SUFFERS HORRIBLE ACCIDENT. FREIGHT TRAIN RUNS AWAY WITH FEED WIRE.

Gadsden, October Especially )-Over at Aurora, Etowah county, at the cotton gin of James Burns, there occurred. on We'd dents recorded in this section, of which the victim lives to tell of the horrible af- fair. Bud Nunn, young white man about 24 years old, was literally cut to pieces from his head down to the hips, and yet lives. It seems that James Burns, who Wednesday morning h was suddenly called home by the news of the death of his wife. Befora leaving he told the other men that if tly could find a man to run the gin they MT i'd run it, but if not to shut down..e prd Mum was near and volunteeredaes wh;vices. The machinery started up.e new orge fourth of bale was ginnq be actively seeame choked with lint. Nunnterests of t,nd to clear it, when the saw Z coat sleeves, jerk ing his JU nTrms through His body was thr'YUHU y against the saws. Ev- cry shred khing on the mans body sas of a.1ans s% sassps a s.r @s s s99s. ss gin so lightly that the machinery was stop. .-. When the employees got Nunn out. he was more dead than alive. His body from his head to his stomach was cut and hacked by the sharp saws, hardly an inch of space was not cut and bleed- ing. Physicians were hurriedly called and the wounded man carried home So far he is still alive. Nunn has a wife and fxxyn oh To ic far 1, Snead place at Aurora.
 l.. R. Price, Robert H Duncan and George H. Clements of Gadsden have been indicted by the United States grand jury at Huntsville on the charge of using the mails to defraud It is said that there are thirteen different indictments against each one as they operated as many stores in as many different places. Young Swim dall, who was one of the gang, and who gave them away when he was arrested, seems to not have been indicted. He was used by Price as a tool, as he was an ig- norant country lad. Wholesale houses from New York to New Orleans have been victimized by this gang of robbers, and many witnesses were before the grand jury and when the men are tried next Monday many more will be present to tes- tify.
 
 expect to apply the torch to the first of the four large furnaces of its great steel and iron making plants which they are erecting al this place inside of four weeks. Delayed shipments of machinery are com ing in rapidly now, and some very heavy express charges have been paid this week in order to hurry up much-needed ma chinery.
 The freight train of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis road narrowly escaped being wrecked yesterday after noon. Street railway lnemen were stretch ing a heavy copper feed wire across the tracks of the N c. and St. l.. and Louis vile and Nashville roads near the Ala bama City depot. The Louisville and Nashville passenger passed under the wire alright, but when the N c. and St. l.. freight came along a negro brake man standing on a box car was struck amidship and knocked down by the wire. which then struck a break rod and was dragged along at a rate of twenty-five miles an hour. Fortunately the other end which was supposed to be fastened to a wagon pulled by two horses was loose. and the wire ran out for a half mile with