One fine day in September 1906, a Richmond, Virginia doctor had one hell of a day. From stitching to dressing wounds, he spent the day patching up employees all over the city.
Many Fingers Lost Yesterday
Joseph Hackney caught his right hand between two cog wheels at the Richmond Foundry at 9:40 o’clock yesterday morning, and had his ring and middle fingers mashed off. Dr. Mason responded with the city ambulance, and after attending, left him.
Willie Salby was cutting tobacco with a machine knife in Spencer & Son’s tobacco plant at 10:30 o’clock yesterday morning, when his hand slipped and the knife cut off his fourth finer. Dr. Mason fixed him up and left him.
Sarah Jones was working in the Allen and Ginter tobacco plant at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon, when some one threw a rock from below through a window near where she stood, and a piece of glass cut a gash in her head. Dr. Mason fixed her up and left her to go home.
Pop Bottle Burst
William Marshall was transplanting soda water bottles in the works at about 3:35 o’clock when one of the gas-charged receptacles exploded. A deep gash about two inches long was cut in his arm by a flying piece of glass, but the boy would not let Dr. Mason close the wound with his silken thread, and it was merely bound up.
Jim Thom was working in the blacksmith shop of the Locomotive Works at 3:40 o’clock when an iron bar fell and mashed off his little finger. Dr. Mason dressed his wound, after which Jim said he would walk home as soon as he got his strength back.
Isaac Gilmore was working in the Chesapeake and Ohio car shops at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon when a heavy piece of timber fell, and bouncing up, struck him beneath the chin. A bad gash was inflicted and three of his teeth were knocked so loose that Dr. Mason pulled them out with his fingers. The surgeon took four stitched in the cut on Isaac’s chin.
Source: The times dispatch. (Richmond, Va.), 13 Sept. 1906.
