Event date: Oct 28, 1881
Mr. J. L. Simonds, superintendent of the Bickford Knitting Machine Company’s works at Centerville, met with a very serious accident last Saturday. The company’s dam was undergoing repairs, and he had walked out to watch the progress of the work, when he stepped on a plank which was tilted and threw him down a distance of 15 or 20 feet on the rocks below. He is now slowly improving, but some time must elapse before his complete recovery.
