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No Hope Held Out For His recovery Plow Which He was Sharpening Wrenched From His Hand and Crushed His Skull A message from Mr. Abrams home late
yesterday afternoon said that he was gradually sinking and that there was
practically no hope Mr. N. Pink Abrams, who manages Mr. L. W. Floyd's farm above
Longshore, in No. 6 township, suffered a serious and probably fatal
accident on Wednesday morning, his skull being frightfully crushed by a
plow point which he was sharpening being caught by a belt, hurled to the
pulley overhead and shot with terrible velocity upon the top of his head.
An operation was performed on Wednesday afternoon by Dr. LeGrand Guerry,
of Columbia, and his two assistants, Drs. Bunch and Shaw, assisted by Drs.
J. K. Gilder and W. D. Senn, but very little hope is entertained for his
recovery.
The accident occurred in the well
house, where there is a gasoline engine used for pumping water, and for
other purposes. On a shaft near the engine is an emery wheel used for
grinding tools around the place. The emery wheel is run from a pulley on
the shaft overhead, and being on a separate shaft is run only when in
use.
Mr. Abrams was at the work of
sharpening plow points two of his children being in the house with him at
the time. In moving the plow point backwards and forwards across the emery
wheel it is supposed that it was caught by the belt and jerked out of his
hand. Striking the pulley above it knocked a large piece out of the
pulley. The pulley was revolving rapidly, and the revolution of the
pulley, accompanied by the high velocity with which the plow point struck
it, gave the point terrific force in its descent.
Newberry, Jan. 18 – While sharpening a plow poiint on an
emery wheel propelled by a gasoline engine, N. P. Abrams, who runs L. W.
Floyd's plantation, in Floyd township, ten miles west of Newberry, was
struck on the head by the plow point and perhaps fatally injured. The
accident happened this morning at 10 o'clock.
Dr. Senn of Longshore and Dr. Gilder of
Newberry were called and they had Dr. Guerry of Columbia to come up on the
midday train. The doctors say that there is one chance in a thousand for
the injured man. His skull was fractured and the brains oozed
out.
Mr. Abrams is a farmer and good
citizen. He has a young wife, to whom he was married December 28, last,
and several children by a former marriage.
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