Almonds, John, Leslie Purley, Martin, unk. & Ridge, Wm., News Clippings, 1884; Rapides, Louisiana Submitter: LA GenWeb Archives Project Source:Town Talk Weekly Date: reformatted as a text file from HTML 7 Jun 2004 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Almonds, Ridge, Purley.....26 Jan 1884 Yesterday morning four men working at the New York Lumber Co.'s Mill, were slightly injured by falling timber. John Almonds, slightly injured his hand; Wm. Ridge was struck on the hip; Leslie Purley had his foot mashed; and a man called Martin also had his foot crushed. All of the men except Martin, were able to work as usual yesterday afternoon.