Rufugio Leon
July 2, 1892
Arizona Silver Belt

A Phoenix dispatch of June 23rd to the S.F. Chrinicle says the 
following account of a terrible accient which occurred yesterday 
at Florence was brought in last night.  A horse mower and 
thresher had just been started when a Mexican named Refugio 
Leon, a rather intelligent looking man, stepped on a table 
adjoning the cylinder, when he was struck by a hay fork and 
precipated into the revolving teeth.  His right leg was 
ground to shreds before the machine could be stopped and then 
it was feared that he could not be pulled out.  The only thing 
left to do was to unbolt and take the machine apart which took 
over an hour.  By this time the man had suffered considerable 
pain and loss of blood.  He was taken to the hospital and his 
broken and mangled limbs amputated but he died a few minutes 
after. No one knew him and he was buried in the potter's field.


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