Walker & Lipzey Saw Mill
Cincinnati Daily Gazette, Thursday, 15 June 1854, page 4
NEWPORT
On Saturday morning, about 9 o'clock, the boilers of Messrs.
Walker & Lipzey's saw mill, on the bank of Licking, in Newport, exploded,
injuring a boy, named Gustav A Schaffer, so severely that it is supposed that he
cannot recover. The engineer, David Childs, who was in the engine room at the
time of the accident, was thrown over a work bench by the concussion among a
pile of rubbish, and was badly scalded and otherwise injured.
One-half of the boiler was thrown across the river. Several persons employed about the mill were more or less injured, but none seriously. James Marsh, watchman on the steamer Yorktown, had his cheek bone fractured by a piece of brick. The disaster is attributed to the great age of the boilers, which were taken from the steamer Talnet. The noise of the explosion was very great and many supposed that a steamboat had blown up. The loss sustained will not vary far from $1900.
The boy Schaffer was picking up chips at the time of the accident. Marsh was fishing from off the stern of the Yorktown when a shower of bricks fell all around him and a piece struck him. These bricks came from a chimney which was torn half to pieces and the pieces were thrown in every direction. One of the bricks fell into Mrs. Herrick's basket, who was returning home from market, and wrenched from her arm, scattering the contents of the basket around her.
One small piece of the boiler was carried over Licking river, into Mr. Bierce's yard and lodged near by where Mr. Bierce's children were playing. We visited the different persons Sunday afternoon, who were injured and find that all will recover, except the boy Schaffer, who it was thought, would not survive 24 hours.
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Cincinnati Daily Commercial, Thursday, 12 January 1860, page 2
Yesterday afternoon, while three workmen were engaged in removed some heavy logs at Linzey's (sic) saw mill, just above the suspension bridge, two of the logs rolled over and before the men could get out of the way, passed over the bodies of Henry Weaver and Patrick Fitzsimmons, seriously if not fatally injuring them.
Weaver is crushed terribly and presented merely a mangled mass when taken up. Drs. Thornton and Gunkle were immediately sent for and rendered all the benefit their skill and experience afforded. Both the wounded men are poor and have families dependent upon them, which makes the accident doubly painful.
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Cincinnati Daily Commercial, Friday, 13 January 1860, page 2
Weaver and Fitzsimmons, the men wounded at Linsay's (sic) sawmill day before yesterday, are in a most critical condition. There is no possibility of Weaver's recovery and Fitzsimmons injuries are much more serious than at first appeared.
Page 4-Condition of Weaver and Fitzsimmons, these individuals injured day before yesterday at Kinsoy & Collins (sic) sawmill, are still in quite a serious condition. Weaver has not spoken since the catastrophe and his care is regarded as entirely hopeless. Fitzsimmons is much worse than was at first supposed and his wounds are considered very dangerous.