A Painful Mishap at the Mill
While working in the busy industrial quarter of Seattle, a laborer suffers a horrific injury to his arm.
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A man named Coe V. A. Kadervas visited the factory—the name we did not learn—engaged in turning spinach for hotbeds on Friday afternoon. His left arm was caught in the lathe and a strip of the flesh, one inch in width, four or five inches in length, and extending nearly to the bone, was torn out of it. No cords were cut or severed, and although a very painful wound was inflicted, no serious injury is likely to result. He went at once to a physician and had the wound properly dressed.
“His left arm was caught in the lathe and a strip of the flesh... was torn out of it.”
In the 1870s, Mill Street (now Yesler Way) was the industrial heart of Seattle, defined by sawmills and the dangerous physical labor that built the city. Today, that same corridor is the epicenter of the homelessness and housing crisis, illustrating how the city’s identity has shifted from a place of raw industrial production to a site of intense socio-economic friction.
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