Cleburne County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Notices for June 9-23, 1900 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net September 21, 2004, 9:28 pm Cleburne New Era newspaper NEWSPAPER NOTICES From "THE CLEBURNE NEW ERA", Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama for JUNE 1900 NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, June 9, 1900 Joe Burton, son of Judge and Mrs. T.J. Burton, of Edwardsville, was killed at Blossburg last Sunday where he was at work, running a stationary engine. He was a young man, about 20 years old, the youngest child of Judge and Mrs. Burton and had been at Blossburg only a few weeks. His remains were carried to Edwardsville Monday evening and laid to rest in the cemetery there.The New Era joins the many friends of the family in offering comfort and sympathy to their bleeding hearts. The following is an account of the terrible accident as reported by the Birmingham News: Mr. Joe Burton, son of Judge T. Burton of Edwardsville, met a horrible death Sunday afternoon at Blossburg at the coke oven plant of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company. He was in charge of the stationary plant of the coke oven. The engine is used in drawing the "larries" on the coke batteries. It seems that the engine failed to pull the "larries" and without shutting off the steam, Burton began in investigation. In some manner he came in contact with the fly wheel of the engine and it in turn threw him into the cog wheels. The young man's cries were heard for some distance as the wheels began crushing him. One of his legs was completely crushed off and the other was horribly mashed. He was hurt internally also. As soon as possible the machinery was halted and the severely injured young man was hastily taken out and carried to a place where he could be given attention. Physicians were called and everything possible was done for the young man. The injured members were bound up, the flow of the blood stopped and nothing was left undone to relieve the intense pain with which he was suffering. It was evident after the first examinations that the young man was dangerously wounded and efforts were not spared in his behalf. Burton lingered amid excruciating pain for about five hours when death came to his relief. __ J.D. Jordan, living three miles south of Heflin, received a message from Carrollton, GA announcing the killing of his brother Tom Jordan by Marshall B.H. Crider of Carrollton. Mr. Jordan left immediately for Carrollton to attend the funeral. Newspaper reports from there state that Jordan was drinking and that in attempting to arrest him, Crider was shot by Jordan three times and in turn shot Jordan once, both men dying in a few minutes. B. Hood, formerly of this place was accidentally shot in the leg. His wound is not serious. __ Nat Hammond was shot and almost intantly killed by Mack Morton at Ashville over a trivial difference Saturday night. Both of these men were prominent citizens of the community and had previous to the shooting been friends. Hammond and Morton met and soon became engaged in a quarrel. Morton suddenly drew a revolver from his pocket and advanced on Hammond. The weapon snapped twice but on the third attempt fired, the ball penetrating Hammond's heart. He walked away a few feet and fell dead. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, June 16, 1900 Mr. and Mrs. I.E. Hubbard have gone to Sand Mountain to visit relatives. __ Miss Eula Stricklen is visiting her sister, Mrs. Stell Blake at Wedowee this week. __ Mrs. Couch died at the home of her husband, W.T. Couch, two miles east of town Thursday night. She had been suffering with erysipelas and while her death was not unexpected it came as a shock to many friends, who tender sympathy to the bereaved family. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, June 23, 1900 Asbury Gentry, of near Buchanan, GA was in Heflin last Saturday evening and not having the coin to pay his transportation decided to take a bicycle and ride home. J.P. Weaver had left his bicycle in front of the post office for a few minutes and when he returned, the wheel had disappeared. Mr. Weaver accompanied by friends tracked the wheel about four miles east of Heflin and captured the thief and recovered the wheel. Gentry was the man and he now languishes idly behind closed doors nd his vocal organs make music for "mine host" Stevens. ____ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/gnw103newspape.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 4.8 Kb