Syracuse NY Daily Journal
Tuesday, June 19, 1866
--Mr. Alonzo Lewis, of Parish, was fatally in-
jured by attempting to split a board with a buzz
saw in his mill, on the 2.1 inst. The saw pinch-
ed, and while he was endeavoring to adjust it,
the board was caught and driven end-wise with
great violence toward him, hitting him in the
lower abdomen and crushing his bowels. he
lived in great pain until the morning of the fol-
lowing Wednesday, when death relieved him of
his sufferings. He was 29 years of age, and
leaves a wife and two small children to mourn
his untimely death. He was greatly respected
by all who knew him.