Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-10-19 | Page 3 | Man Whirled to Death on Shaft

MAN WHIRLED LED TO DEATH ON SHOT SHAH Body of Bingham Chemist Is Literally Torn to Pieces Special to The Bingham Oct 18 John Crabell ana analytical hUcal chemist at the Utah Copper com corn plant was literally lItI rall torn to pieces at 1 this afternoon when his cloth clothing clothIng clothIng ing was caught In a set screw screw and he was whirled around a shaft at the rate of ISO revolutions a minute No one saw the accident but tao tn manner In which his hla body bod was mangled showed that death must have been Instantaneous Crabell who cam cams here from Crom Virginia lnla about a year ago and who was only 23 years cars old went to the roll floor at the thet top t p of the mill Just after the luncheon hour No Noone one knows why wh he went up there because his Ma duties were all In other parts of the mill Apparently he was wa wab binding bending b over oer when wh n his clothing caught In Ina a set act screw and before he could even eyen utter a cry he had been crushed out of all aU semblance to man men With the very first revolution of the shaft his head must have struck a timber Umber His features were utterly obliterated and his head hend crushed to a pulp His right arm was torn entirely y from its socket and nearly every ever bone In his body was broken The room where he met his death was plashed with blood and most of his cloth ing was torn off Workmen saw the blood flowing on the floor and dripping from the walls What remained of the body bod was revolving such rapidity it was vas difficult to It as a human form but they gave the signal to stop the machinery and the quivering remnants of what a 11 moment before had b ben en a youth In the full flush of life were taken from the shaft The identity was as not known until the shreds of his Ide clothing was recognized and even then many thought there must be some mistake because Crabell had no reason to go to that floor In a moment or two It became certain that the victim was the chemist and a au an i undertaker was sum summoned summoned summoned Everyone who saw the mutilate J body knew that he was beyond the aia ath of a physician Crabell had no relatives here but during his year ear of here hert he made many friends H He was WJ is regarded rs its 8 being ex cx exceptionally exceptionally bright and his employers pre pr a bright future ahead of him His BiB home address is Toms Beat Ecat Va He never talked a g gr grat at deal about his family hence It Is not known how many reId rela tives he had Telegrams Tele rams were sent this afternoon notifying his people of the tragedy The remains were sent to the Bingham branch of Eb r Halls under taking parlors to await orders from hU his folks