POTTER SAWMILL
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Lane County - near Monroe
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May 18, 1895: "Yesterday afternoon while working in Potter's sawmill west of this city near Monroe. Jacke Burkey, a German, and one of the employes of the mill, met with an accident which caused him to lose one of his hands.
Burkey was employed as sawyer and while working a small piece of timber became lodged under the saw and he attempted to remove it. In doing so he picked up another piece of timber and reached down to rake the first piece out, when the piece he had in his hand caught in the teeth of the turning saw and in an instant, before he could release the stick, jerked his hand into the saw. His hand, the right one, was sawed off across the palm, the fingers and part of the palm being separated and only the thumb remaining. His thumb, however, and the remaining part of the hand was badly lacerated to the wrist.
Burkey is a young unmarried man aged about 21 or 22. As soon as the accident happened he was taken to the home of his step-father, Mr. Kilmer, who resides on the Purkeson farm about eight miles west of Eugene, and Dr. L. W. Brown, of this city, was summoned. Upon examination the doctor found that an operation was necessary and accordingly about eight o'clock last evening he amputated the arm just above the wrist. The patient is getting along nicely and will probably soon recover, but he will ever be minus that most useful member of the body." (Eugene City Guard)
Burkey was employed as sawyer and while working a small piece of timber became lodged under the saw and he attempted to remove it. In doing so he picked up another piece of timber and reached down to rake the first piece out, when the piece he had in his hand caught in the teeth of the turning saw and in an instant, before he could release the stick, jerked his hand into the saw. His hand, the right one, was sawed off across the palm, the fingers and part of the palm being separated and only the thumb remaining. His thumb, however, and the remaining part of the hand was badly lacerated to the wrist.
Burkey is a young unmarried man aged about 21 or 22. As soon as the accident happened he was taken to the home of his step-father, Mr. Kilmer, who resides on the Purkeson farm about eight miles west of Eugene, and Dr. L. W. Brown, of this city, was summoned. Upon examination the doctor found that an operation was necessary and accordingly about eight o'clock last evening he amputated the arm just above the wrist. The patient is getting along nicely and will probably soon recover, but he will ever be minus that most useful member of the body." (Eugene City Guard)