Mr. Henry SLEDGE while engaged at work in the Foundry of J.M. FOOTE in this place on Wednesday last, had his arm caught in one of the belts and painfully mashed.  As the band was running loosely it was easily thrown from the wheel, or Mr. SLEDGE would have been seriously injured.

Source: Roanoke News, 14 September 1878. Available online at digitalnc.org.