This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TmQ.2ACIB/2310 Message Board Post: Sacramento Evening Bee Friday, May 5, 1905 ENGINEER MEETS HORRIBLE DEATH His Clothing Becomes Entangled In Shaft and His Body Frightfully Mutilated SISSON (Siskiyou Co.), May 5 - Alonzo D. CURTIS, engineer of Long Spur Door and Sash Factory, one mile north of this place, met with a horrible death last night while working among the wheels and shafts in the basement of the factory. By some means his clothing became entangled in a swift revolving shaft and he was wound around the shaft several times before his clothing gave way and he fell to the ground. His left arm was torn from his body close to the shoulder. Several ribs on the left side were broken and the left leg between the knee and ankle was broken in three places. He was a man of 38 years of age, unmarried, and his only known relatives are a father and a nephew who live near Grants Pass, Oregon, and who have been notified by wire of the accident. Curtis had worked for this Company for several years and was regarded as a faithful employee. He lived about three hours after the accident. A companion who was working with Curtis witnessed the accident but was powerless to help his suffering fellow workman.