Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1886 — An Arm Gone. [ARTICLE]

An Arm Gone.

A bad accident happened out at Stackhouse’s tile mill, north of town last Saturday. A young fellow known as Hays Hamilton, Avho had been employed there, was attending to the crushers, two immense iron cylinders, which turn with great velocity, and between them,crush and grind the clay from which the tiles are to be made. The space between the crushers, at their nearest point of contact, is only one eighth of an inch. Into this narrow space, by some means, young Hamilton permitted his arm to be drawn. The hand and the arm clear to the elbow were crushed and ground to a shapeless' mass. Drs. Lougliridge and son were sent for and in the afternoon they successfully amputated the arm, at a place a little above the elbow. It was the right arm. Hamilton is about 16 or L 7 years old, and an orphan. He was for seA'eral years in the care of Mr. J. G. Ottlp, of Barkley tp., who obtained him a from Home for the Friendless, or some similar institution. in Indianapolis. * At last accounts the arm is doing as well as could be expected.