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Show KILLED IN A SAW MILL. A shocking casualty occurred in Smithfield last Tuesday, which illustrates the suddenness with which death may come to those who least expect it. A boy named Ridgeway aged about 11 years, was working in Mr. Hilliard's saw mill. At about five o'clock in the afternoon Mr. Hilliard, who was also working in the mill, happened to see the youth lying on the carriage, which was rapidly approaching the saw. Exactly how the boy came to be prostrated on the carriage is not clear, but he probably slipped on stumbled and fell on to it. Before he could recover himself his left hand, covered with a glove, came in contact with the saw. He drew back his hand when the saw caught his sleeve near the left elbow. The left arm near the elbow point was drawn into the teeth of the saw and dreadfully mangled, and at the same instant the boy's body was thrown across the saw in such a way as to bring the teeth obliquely across the lower part of his back. A gash was made several inches deep, extending from the top of the right hip, obliquely downward to the left thigh. Dr. Ormsby was sent for, but little or nothing could be done, and death ensued in a few hours. Mr. Hilliard witnessed the horrible work of the saw, but it was done too quickly to give him time to assist the boy. |