WORSE THAN THE SCALPING KNIFE.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1159, 17 March 1874, Page 4

WORSE THAN THE SCALPING KNIFE.

The following terrible story is told in a Chicago paper, which says :—" The girl, Amelia Grunncll, who had her scalp torn off in a shingle mill, is still alive, and will probably recover. She was working under a shaft which was going at the rate of 200 revolutions per minute, when her hair, which was very long, caught in the knuckle joint of the machinery, and in an instant it was torn entirely from her head. Erom a line drawn round from each eyebrow, her skull was left white and bare, without a trace of blood and flesh. The strangest part of the accident is that she felt little or no pain, declaring that when it was being torn off all that she realised was a tickling sensation in the head. She coolly walked out of the room, and waited patiently for a buggy to take her home. Her only regret was the fright it would give her mother. The scalp, with its beautiful long locks of hair, was curled and entwined around the shaft at the joint, and when the mill was stopped it was taken down, but no one had sufneent presence of mind to replace it on her head, It is nearly perfect, and the doctors have delermined to tan it with the hair, on so that, if the girl recovers, it may be used as a wig. The case is one of the most remarkable oil record, and lias created a feeling of intense horror here."