A young man named Samuel Bowen, engaged as engineer and
beer-runner at Gregg & Co.’s distillery, was instantly killed yesterday
morning between one and two o’clock, his body being literally cut in two
between a couple of cog wheels. The
accident occurred in what is called the beer cellar. The unfortunate young man had only been a
short time “on watch,” and went into the cellar to give some directions to the men
working there. The place was dark, but
being intimately acquainted with the position of the machinery, he took no
light with him. It is supposed that in
passing, the skirt of his coat caught in the wheels drawing him in their
terrible embrace, and cutting him in two diagonally, from a little above the
hips, through the breast. He gave a few
heart-piercing shrieks, but his death was almost instantaneous. His right leg and one arm were shockingly
mutilated. – Peoria Transcript, April 1.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 5, 1862, p. 2
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