From the Richmond Times-Dispatch, 8/22/1906, p. 10, c. 6

Leg Cut to the Bone.

Mr. James Billups, of No. 323 South Fourth Street, while working at the Tredegar Iron Works at 10:30 o’clock last night, was struck by a steel wheel band as it was thrown from the press, and his right leg was cut to the bone. Dr. Hudgins attended him and took eight stitches in the wound.

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