Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-06-07
NO.. 20.

Human Flesh For Lard.
"One witness told the commissioners
that he knew of a case in which twO
members Of the same family had fall
Ell into the lard watts and had been par
TALLY rendered into lard. The first to-
lose his life was a boy, nine years DID,,
who stumbled into one of the rendering
watts while taking dinner to his father.
The father fell in some months later.
There is no telling how many men
met death in this way. Thera was a
case only a week before We reached
Chicago in Witch a man fell into a
tank, and the room was closed while
the remnants-mostly bones-were
fshed cut"
Widow Got $4,000.
Mr. Bloor said 81 heard of the case
in saloon, and after drinking with a
workman who was in the place until he
got pretty communicative, he told me
he would take me to the man Nho was
working beside the unfortunate fellow,
and who helped fish out what was left
of him. He did take me to this man. to
whom | represented myself as the agent
VI a pCl-SIlI COMPANY. L save the COla-
mission the name Of the witness.
He readily stated that he had wit
messed the death, and gave me the name
Of the widow, who received. he said,
81, 500 from the company"
"Potted Chicken"
Mrs. Bloor, consulting her memo
randum book, then told of the testi-
mony submitted to the commission by
a man who had worked for some years
on the killing floor in one Of the big
packing houses.
His first employment there was to
pick mp logs, and the commissioners
heard his story in full. He told them
that SUNK" or unborn calves, were
always utilized.
They are taken out of the carcasseS
and doped up were his exact words.
Then they went to the ported chicken
Another Dainty.
after this the witness went to the
produce department. where chickens,
butter, eggs and butterine are handled.
He said that when chickens came in
large quantities many of them would
be dead and spoiled. When they were
so far decomposed that they could
not be handled without dropping
apart, they were taken to the refrig-
Grating plant and frozen solid Then
they were deodorized and turned out
as canned chicken-not ported chick
en-, but chicken in pieces. He said
formaldehyde and other stuff was
used to take the smell away
"KiIIinG Dead Cattle"
There were several grades in the
butterine department, he said The
principal ingredients, of course, was
OleO OleO is made from scraps of fat
swept from the floor and barrel scrap
ings of strong butter which had
been deodorized.
Butterine.
Il wrote out the testimony of a very
intelligent man, taken before a wit
ness who did not wish to go before
the commission, and presented it my
self. He had worked for II years on
the killing floor and said that he had
often killed dead CATTLE This was in
one of the trust houses and accord
ing to him, four or five of these dead
cattle were usually cut up every day.
Cattle came up so badly diseased that
they were hard to handle He is what
is known as a header it being his
business to cut the heads from the
bodies of the animals
High Priced Tongue.
"Often in doing the cutting, when
the carcass was that of an animal
y1yh ioo
he would strike into the assesses ac-
cidentally and the putrid matter would
fly all over him. These carcasses went
right alonA he said, and everything
was used but the abscess. The
tongues are sold as high-prioed
tongues.
Newspaper WOman's story.
Miss Bertha Wilkins, a newspaper
woman, who sought and obtained work
in the trimmed meat department of one
of the trust establishments, appeared
before the commission. She described
conditions which were simply imprint
able.
Too Revolving For Publication.
Mr. Bioor described conditions as he
had learned them from employees, tend
ing to show that there was absolutely
no barrier between the sexes, and that
such thing as modesty was impossible
amid the Surroundings of the workers.
He told a story which bears out in
every particular the Washington story
that some of the features of the Neill-
Reynolds report are too revolving for
publication-too revolving, almost, to
be believable