Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1903 — A Record Breaking Bone Breaking [ARTICLE]

A Record Breaking Bone Breaking

Ten years ago at this time, MoKay, the hustling proprietor of the Model Laundry, of thfef plaoe, was lying in a Chicago hospital, suffering from one of the worfit aooidents any man ever went thkmgh and lived to tell it. He on the 6th floor of a big laundry in Chioago, and got upxm a high step ladder to oil the beariogt of a shaft that was revolving about 250 times in a minute. Tbe eud of a Bet sorew oaught in his olotbing and in a second be was wound up and revolving with the shaft, his feet striking the oeiling at every tnrn. There was no way to stop the the engine except by some one going to the engine room in the basement.' Before that oonld be done however, Mr. MoKay’a feet strnok the belt whioh tnrned tbe shaft and threw it off, and }iia olothing about all being torn off too, be became free from tbe Bbaft. But he was still whirling so fast that he was thrown bodily through a window, taking out saeh and glasa as he went, and be then was thrown across a ten foot alley and lighted on a gravel roof, three stories lower down.

One leg wsi broken both above and below the knee, the othqrwas broken [.below the knee. One arm was broken both above and below the elbow, and other below the elbow, and one bfcnd was orushed Also in the doubling up around the shaft the toe of one boot, pierced and i broke one of his shonldes Great bums extended clear across bis chest and stomach opnsed by the friction of the revolving abaft- The fall on the'gravel roof out and bruised

h|oj alsOfci4#um||p-lqg| places. '% He thinks be most have been on the shaft 2 or 8 minutes, and nntil consciousness left him he oonld see everything and body in the room. And stranglst of all he saw his watch wherelit fell on the floor,- and with its case sprung open, and he observed thnjf, it wae just 11 o’olook and was inj* terested in knowing the time whih. he passed over the river, for Mfelt certain he would be killed. Pi; HeremaitfCdin the hospit|l from - July to- February, and hi b not mnob to show for his terrib e experience, exoept a few soars hei 9 and there, and a very slight lim o when be walks. s , . :1., I . • i’ . 1