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St. Joseph Herald
Saturday, June 23, 1888


                             Terrible Accident
                             
              Soon after 8 o'clock Thursday morning CHAS. OTT,
            employed at Wells & Co's basket factory, was almost
            instantly killed by the bursting of a cast-iron 
            disc to a machine, for shaping bottoms to grape
            baskets, which he was attending and which was re-
            volving at a speed of over thirteen hundred revo-
            lutions per minute. The pieces were scattered in
            all directions, with great force, some passing
            through the floor, and one piece weighing twenty-
            five or thirty pounds striking young OTT breaking
            his jaw, mangling his breast and shoulder fear-
            fully and carrying him backward and down to the
            floor. Fellow employes rushed to his assistance
            and DR. SCOTT was quickly summoned, but the vic-
            tim was past all human help. He was a ghastly 
            sight. The remains were conveyed to his home and
            a jury under CORONER MILLER held an inquest, ren-
            dering a verdict of accidental death. His age was
            about 22 years. A train of unfortunate circum-
            stances seem to follow MR. OTT. He was married
            less than a year ago and soon after the wedding
            his wife died under peculiarly sad circumstances,
            and he had only about recovered from an injury,
            to his foot, in an elevator. The funeral services
            were held from the M. E. Church yesterday, Rev.
            CARREL conducting them.
              The cause of the bursting of the disc is not
            known. The escape of others in the mill from
            injury was simply miraculous.
            
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