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Show HE MEETS AWFUL DEATH ; Drawn Under SleelCable and WoundAbo ut Drum of Engine . Ventura, Cal.. March 4 J. H. A. Burgess, a youth of 18, met a horrible death yesterday at Santa Susana, this county, where the Southern Pacific 3 operating a quarry. Burgess was running a stationary engine, used in hoisting rock onto cars. It had a drum about which ran a steel cable, b'n-glneers b'n-glneers at a distance heard a cry and noticed that Burgess' engine was running run-ning away. They ran there and found that the young man was caught under tho 6teel cable and that his body was rapidly being wound about the drum of the engine. Ho was fearfully mangled man-gled when the men reached the en-gin en-gin and stopped iL It was found that Burgess' head was cut almost In two and that his body was much torn. No one 8aw the accident and It was not possible to tell how he got fast In the cable. |