The Hillsborough Recorder

The N. Y. Journal of Commerce mentions a melancholy accident which occurred at the foundry of Mr. Allaire, on Thursday last: John Burk, a lad 17 years of age, was arranging some machinery in the chamber, in doing which, it was convenient for him to stand upon one of the large cog wheels. While thus situated, the workmen below, unconscious of his position, put the machine in motion. The right foot of the miserable lad was immediately drawn in, and then the whole limb, in a line with the motion of the wheel, and crushed at every cog. His cries were heard, and the engine stopped just as the dreadful process was commencing on the lower part of his body. To extricate the mangled limb from the wheels, was attended with much difficulty. Whether he still survives, we have not learned.