A Sudden And Violent Death

This forenoon about 10 o’clock, Hiram Hammond, a workman at C. Lamb’s saw mill, met a most sudden and horrid death. While walking backward drawing away boards from the gang saws, he stumbled and fell upon a large circular saw, which nearly severed the left leg diagonally in a line from the hip to the knee, turned the body so as to strike him again on the right side of the neck, and instantly cut of his head throwing it nearly eight feet from the lifeless trunk, which fell upon the shaft revolving the saw. The whole was done in an instant. Mr. Hammond recently came to this place from Big Flats, Chemung County, N. Y. He was in the prime of life, about 35 years old. He leaves a wife, but no children. – Clinton Herald.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, April 30, 1862, p. 2