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Is Cfught on a Rapidly Revolving ShaftS | JL ^ ■ • I . . • • I _ • ^ ^ '-J' 4 M|and Torn to Pieces.. __ - . ■. *. 0 __•Harry Nickels, one ot the emyloyes of the Dry Dock Co.,is suddenly whirled into eternity while emyloyed athis daily task at the ship-yard.DELAYEDOut of the quiet of the daily grind at the ship yard there came late ye'ster-day, the - awful tale of a soul hurled■ wT . ■A* .-* ’. —suddenly into eternity. There was no warning, no thot of danger, probably, on the part of the roan who was killed, only the sadden grip of a whirling shafta. it *ei»ed its victim, whirled him with I No Maj, Peceived From the]im1lt;ISouth as *.ate as 3 P. M., .. ■# ,1 ^ | • • *^DL h / . ■ , ~ ,on Account of a Blizzard South of Milwaukeelightning speed around itself scattering the dismembered torn and bleedingv t r * m -r v- ' * -. v,. ., .. - -r? - .*_if _ * - . y ,y j* t '■parts of its victim in all directions, and then-all was as it was before. .Not entirely as it had been, because overhead, near the fatal shaft hung a peg and a part of thel^MjMfe onground about lay parts of the body, a {Trains Due Hera at 0.50 Reported leg, the arms, the trunk cut diagonally in two and all about stood the horny handed eons of toil paralyzed . into inaction by the horrors of a moment.Harry Nickels was the victim and so | On account ot a heavy IpBfr storm fcodly was his body torn that it was j gouth of Milwaukee, the train tiue gathered together in a basket. The I here at 9.50 A. M. had not yet arrivedll*lf(|»*» cut in two, both arms and at 2.30 P. M. and no mail from eitherboth log* were torn off, and all those j Chicago or Milwaukee has arrived up who witnessed the accident saw at the to that time.11eaFive Hours Late Mid Not YettkHere * at 2.30 O’clocktime was flying parts of the body asDailyf papers were delayed, thetheg^weM hurled thru the air and bits of ia8t papers received here being theer piece# of .clothing as I Milwaukee evening papers.ylt;StbifiiIn, . 1wthey sailed about.The storm area extends from Mil-1UiobiDr. F.Gehbe, Dentist, Woods Blk.Harry Nfckels, a carpenter, had just I waukee south the train service all overplaced a pulley on the shaft in the loft j southenrWisconsin and northern Illi-1 at of the machine shed at the ship yard | |jQjs ja badly blocked, and the accident happened as he was pttcing the belt onto the pulley. In some manner he slipped and was caught 08 the shaf t and his body hurled around until it was entirely dismembered, andtorn to shreds.Mr. Nichols was about 32 years of age and leaves a wife and four children, the youngest of whom is only sixmonths of age, who were dependent on his labor fi»r their support.Just how the accident happened is not known at this writing. At 9.30 this morning Dr. Falge, coroner, said thatan inauest had not been decidedhebeenChristricks that, in his opinion no inquest would be necessary as the man came to his death by an accident pure and simple. v Hendricks also had talkedwith his wife, Nichols aunt, about the matter and. she also had given it:as her opinion that no inquest would benecessary.Dr. Falge was then told that there is considerable talk about projecting setscrews and Keys on the shafting in themachine shed and that an inquestRobert Andrastek, a brother of Harbor Master Ignatz Andrastek, died at 2 o'clock P. M. today ef pneumonia.W- . *Deceased was 22 years of age and was sick only a short time. Arrangements for the funeral have not yet beenmadeM.inlt;faticwlofMCE RIOTS HIeifrelt;IWMrf- Race riots are impending at Vienna, 111 , due to the death of Allen Clark,should be held, if only to satisfy the a rural mail carrier, who was shot on apeople that there is no likelihood that the employing company was criminallynesrligenV: or that the State Factory1 * f^* • 1 ^ ^ . v . • 1 j . _*■ t,■ ti 1Inspector was nesrliffent of his duty.Dr. Faige, when called up later in■ « . the day said that a brother of the deceased had asked that no inquest be held as death was purely accidentaland no blame could be attached to anyone. There were no projections on thetrain by a troop of drunken negroes Saturday.Sheriff Matthies has been instructed by Governor Deneen to arm a force of men to protect the prisonersshaftwrappedby his nd thekiiathisniglt;Gearlt;wliFIFOS OFFICEHSshaft, an accident against Which no safeguard except caution on the part of the man himself could have safeguarded him. - fct •Mr. West, when asked this afternoon, said that it wajjijan accident pure and simple and that could not in anyway have been avoided, but said that he could not give details of the accident as lie was not present,? The shaft on which ^Nickels wasa , ainst which t was whirledcaught is near the roof a hit body was hurled as it swiftly around the shaft.end of the shed.: immediately above the I “ Mr. and Mrs. . Archie Thayer enter-the eastA. H. Pohl was re-elected president and Herman Strodhoff secretary of the German Mutual Fire Insurance company at its meeting held Tuesday nigHt and C. Sieker and Chris Kansier were elected as directors. -The company declared a twenty per cent dividend to be pa d to policy hold-prs who have held policies for nine yearn er more.Sfj. G. Lehmkuhl, A. Kazda and F. W. Meyer were re-elected directors of the Manitowoc Mutual Fire Insurance company but no officer* were elected, the committee which was to nominate having fuiivd to daco. ' . • ?-1cor atno1rorThwiianlt;ifDrlt;cotHeMtlt;4libig roller on which the large'’steel are bent railed to form.sheetstained relatives and friends today in honor of - their twenty-sixth weddinganniversaw^^^^|^|ft'',^^p|^S3miThantax
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Manitowoc Daily Tribune
Manitowoc, Wisconsin, US
Thu, Jan 13, 1910
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