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The Monmouth Inquirer
Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey
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Walter Thompson, a Wilton carpet weaver at Freehold rug mill, lost his left hand in a loom accident on Saturday, requiring amputation at Long Branch hospital. He has a wife and two young children in Thompsonville, Conn., and planned to relocate them to Freehold.
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a Wilton carpet weaver employed at the Freehold rug mill the past two months, suffered the loss of his left hand Saturday, when, while working on his loom he caught the member in the motor gears. The hand and wrist were so badly crushed that it was found necessary to amputate the hand just above the wrist at the Long Branch hospital, where Thompson was taken in the Freehold boro ambulance. The unfortunate man has a wife and two children residing at Thompsonville, Conn., the youngest child being but a week old. Mr. Thompson was arranging to bring his family to Freehold.
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Freehold Rug Mill, Long Branch Hospital
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Saturday
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Walter Thompson caught his left hand in motor gears while working on a loom at Freehold rug mill, leading to crushing injury and amputation above the wrist at Long Branch hospital; he has a family in Thompsonville, Conn., planning to move to Freehold.