From the Richmond Dispatch, 9/3/1886, p. 1, c. 5

Nearly Killed by an Augur.

About 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon Mr. Alonzo Tulane, a young man who is employed at the Tredegar, met with an accident which may result in his death. While engaged at work at an augur, which is run by steam, pushing a piece of timber under it, the timber slipped, and his clothing being caught by the augur, he was dragged against it, and it struck him under the left arm, cut through the muscles, made a wound about six inches long, and penetrated the left lung. As soon as the accident happened the city ambulance was called, and Dr. Smith, the physician in charge, sewed up the wound and took the unfortunate man to his home, 1509 east Main street. Dr. Smith considers the wound dangerous, but not necessarily fatal. Mr. Tulane is a single man, and is only about twenty-five or six years old.

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