Crushed entirely flat

This day as a cart, laden with sand, was coming up the lane from the Bell Sand Wharf, in Upper-Thames-street, (which is so narrow that, except in a space where a warehouse door is fixed, the wheels graze the walls) a young man, a lighterman, met it as he was going down. The carman warned him of his danger, and requested him to go back, which he refused, but ran on, hoping to gain the door-way; unfortunately his head and the wheel came in contact with the wall, the poor young man's head was crushed entirely flat, and he was left a shapeless and nearly headless corpse.