A TERRIBLE DEATH.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1241, 11 December 1885, Page 3

A TERRIBLE DEATH.

The ‘Brisbane Conner’ states that at Hendra. on the raoecouse line, an accident occurred of a very terrible character. The scene of the occurrence was the Queensland Brick and Tile Company’s manufactory. Amongst the employes wa< a young married man named Robert Walker, who was respected by his mates as a sober, industrious and manly fellow should be. Ha was about thirty years of age and lived with his wife and four children in a cottage in the neighbourhood of the brick-works. His duty was to feed the clay and stone crushing mill. Thera are three stories or floors to the mill. Walkers work consisted in receiving the « aggons and emptying them into a capacious shoot or hopper surmounting the top rollers and to keep shovelling the stuff on to the rollers. The accident happened at ten minutes past seven in the m ming. ToS'S v;_2S 20 crash of breaking down machinery or any piercing cry of pain. The mill was going on without let or hindrance aiid a workman named Britton was qiietly watering the clav, when a sight appeared that filled him with horror. The first he saw ot it was two human han Is, crushed into pulp as thin and as flat as a penny, which were being disgorged from the iron jaws of the mill. Those were slowly followed by long strips of flesh, blood, and bones respresentiog arms, ; and then came a mangled head and body, flat tened out like the bauds and arms and ail attached. Britton 7 almost. instantly recognised what had hanpened, and called out: “ Stop the engine ; Boh is in the mill.” It is estimated that the uufortnate man had been less than half a-mum to -between the rollers when they were brought to a stand* still. In thAt time, however, his arms,

head, and body down to hw loiui ha passed, through m a mass of indescribable pulp. Immediately, the machinery was •topped all hand*'hastened to the top; storey, and their found Walker’s leas the, onlw uninjured Dart o(his;body, sticking up from the jaws of death. With some difficulty thu, rpiler^""ijrere, dra w,i .apart.,about •'an-inch,' and the mangled- remainr bf the poor fellow wore-pirfled up and placed uporij 'tho*. floor.' i ’No- one saw Walker, when at Ins work, tripped and fell, head firef int/r.lbe.Jii.ppeiiajr shoot, was drawn fn by tueroileW relentlessly; and was killed instantaneously.

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