Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1876 — Nerve. [ARTICLE]

Nerve.

An accident recently occurred at Augustine, Del., which called forth an exhibition of nerve certainly remarkable. A Wilmington paper thus describes the accident: A man by the name of Neil Kelly, an employe of Jessup & Moore’s paper-mills, was cleaning a stack of chilled calender rolls, used for calendering and giving compactness to the paper. The rolls are run so close together that light cannot be seen between them. While Kelly was wiping the moisture from the rolls, preparatory to stopping work for Oie day, he stepped upon something which caused him to slip, and to avoid falling he put out his right hand, the index finger of which came dfrectly between the revolving rolls and was immediately drawn slowly in, crushing the finger and flattening it out as thin as a piece of paper. In a few minutes his whole hand and arm would be passing between the rolls. Seeing and fully comprehending the danger, and knowing that no one was In the mill but himself, he determined upon a plan that required great nerve to execute. ' Seizing his right wrist by the disengaged hand, he propped himself with his feet firmly against the base of the machine, and pulled with all his might until the finger parted at the second joint, pulling the main leader from the arm as far up as the elbow. After thus freeing himself, he stopped the machinery, closed the mill,

and went home. A physician was summoned, who amputated the stump close to the hand, and dressed the wonnd, Kelly showing the name power of endurance during the o[>erat ion that he had previously exhibited.