From the Richmond Dispatch, 8/27/1890, p. 1, c. 2

ONE SICK – THE OTHER INJURED.
An Iron-Worker Has Cramp – A Tredegar Employee Loses a Hand.

The ambulance was called yesterday at 12:45 P. M. to the Vulcan Iron-Works to attend a colored man attacked with the cramp. He was relieved and left.

At 5:05 P. M. the ambulance was summoned to the Tredegar-Works to attend John Turner, one of the colored operatives, whose hand was badly mashed by being caught in a cog-wheel. As the wound was quite a severe one he was taken to the almshouse, where the wounded member was amputated by Doctors Dow and Lawrence.

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