Fulton County PA Archives News.....Clara Hixson - Terrible Accident. October 19, 1899
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The Fulton County News. (McConnellsburg, Pa.): October 19, 1899 October 19, 1899
Clara Hixson - Terrible Accident.
Scalp and Hair Torn From the Head of a Little Girl.
Last Saturday afternoon Clara, the 10 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George
Hixson, of Emmaville, this county, was the victim of a most horrible and
heart-rending accident.
Mr. Hixson owns and operates a steam grist mill at Emmaville. An iron shaft about
two inches in diameter and several feet long connects the engine with the mill
proper. This shaft, crossing the pathway leading to and from the mill, it was
customary for Mr. Hixson and the children to pass under it. As Clara was passing
under the shaft her hair, which was plaited, by some means caught and wrapped around
the shaft, which was running at the rate of seven hundred revolutions a minute.
Almost instantly the child was hurled around in the air and thrown several feet
away. She jumped up and, running around the mill screaming, attracted the attention
of her lather, who was standing at the door in the second story of the mill. When
his eyes beheld the ghastly spectacle, without a moment's hesitation he jumped to
the ground and clasped his little daughter in his arms and carried her into the
house, when he discovered that the entire scalp was torn from her head, one ear
severed and the skin of the larger part of the face and nose terribly lacerated.
While little hope is entertained for the recovery of the child, still, we are
informed, she remains perfectly conscious, and endures the pain and suffering with
the patience of one more advanced in years. Universal sympathy goes out to the
little one and to the grief-stricken parents.

The Fulton County news. (McConnellsburg, Pa.): October 26, 1899

CLARA HIXSON IMPROVING.
A letter received a day or two ago by Mrs. S. W. Kirk, of this place, from her
sister in Brush Creek valley, states that the condition of Clara Hixson, who was so
terribly injured at her father's mill at Emmaville last Saturday a week, is greatly
improving. Dr. Hanks visits her and dresses the wound every other day, and he says
the wound is beginning to heal, and that the child's appetite is beginning to
return.

The Fulton County news. (McConnellsburg, Pa.): November 09, 1899

On Monday morning, a week, Dr. J. G. Hanks took Clara Hixson, of Brush Creek
township, whose scalp was torn off by the mill shaft, about three weeks ago, to a
Philadelphia Hospital. She has written two letters home, and is getting along as
well as could be expected. The little sufferer has stood every operation heroically.

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