The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer

NARROW ESCAPE.—An employe at Washington Mills, named Dominic, had a narrow escape from being crushed to death yesterday morning. He was engaged in the rolling department, and at the time was passing iron through the rolls. Having seized a mass of red hot iron with his tongs, while attempting to manipulate it they unexpectedly let go their grip, throwing Dominic into a pit just in the rear, in which a large shaft was revolving quite rapidly. One of his fellow workmen, seeing and realizing the danger to which his companion was exposed, took hold of him and dragged him from his perilous position. The escape from a horrible death was a narrow one, as a moment later the man would have been caught perhaps, and wound around the shaft with a force well nigh irresistible. We were told by one who witnessed it, that a thrill of horror ran through those who were present and cognizant of the position occupied by Dominic while in the pit.