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Detroit Free Press
Thursday, 26 July 1860

         A Man's Leg Torn Off In A Threshing Machine
         
         A dreadful accident occurred yesterday evening on the
       farm of MR. PETTIS, about one mile southwest of Tecumseh
       village. MR. JOHN LOWE, one of the proprietors of a
       threshing machine, was at MR. PETTIS' with the machine,
       and had been threshing wheat, MR. LOWE himself feeding
       the machine. For some cause the speed of the machine had
       been slacked, and MR. LOWE, for some purpose, stepped
       over the cylinder from the usual position of the feeder,
       and as he moved to return he called to the driver to put
       on the speed again, and stepping over the cylinder he
       fell upon the feeding apron with his legs against the
       revolving teeth. In a moment his left leg was ground off
       above the knee and his right foot was taken off a little
       above the ankle. The sight of the man's mutilated, mangled
       limbs was horrible. Dr. Patterson, of Tecumseh, was called,
       and afforded professional aid in checking the bleeding,
       but the shock, with the loss of blood, was such that the
       unfortunate man rapidly sank and died in the night.
         - Adrian Watchtower, July 24.
         
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