Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1920 — Oiler in Western Mill Stripped by Shafting [ARTICLE]

Oiler in Western Mill Stripped by Shafting

Vina. ifev.—With every stitch of clothing stripped from his body, G. W. Pearl, an oiler, employed in the min of the Olympic Mines company, was picked up from the floor of the mill by fellow employees and found to have suffered no serious Injury, despite the fact that he was whirled around a rapidly moving shafting several times. Pearl was oiling the line shafting in the mill when his clothing was entangled in a set screw on the shafting. The clothing held fast for a few seconds and he was pulled onto the shafting and whirled around. How many times he weht around he could not tell, but when his clothes Anally gave way he was shot to the floor of the mill and had nothing on but his shoes.. He has a few bruises to shqw for his experience.