From the Richmond Dispatch, 11/12/1886, p. 1, c. 5

His Arm Pulled Out.

A colored youth named George Brown, who is employed at the Tredegar Iron Works, met with an accident yesterday which will cost him his right arm. While at work he got his arm caught in one of the cog-wheels, where he was engaged, and it was pulled out at the shoulder, and he was terribly mangled. The ambulance was summoned and responded promptly. Brown, who was suffering very much from the shock, was taken to the alms-house, where he was doing well last night. His arm, which only hangs by shreds, will be taken off.

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