A Chapter of Accidents

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 117, 15 November 1893, Page 2

A Chapter of Accidents

— ♦ . — . On Monday evening a son of Mr Caywood's, ofMaJ-ino, met with an accident while bushfelling in the bush beyond Pemberton. A tree in falling struck Caywood, knocking him to the ground, and it is feared that he has received severe internal injuries. Tbe sufferer was yesterday conveyed to his parents' resi. nence, but we have yet been unable to ascertain as to how he is progressing. While a number ot farmers were waiting for their skim milk at Mr' Corpe's Mokinq factory yesterday morning, one ofthe, horses, attached to a trap, took fright and careered around tbe factory and over the lawns in front of Mr Corpe's residence! knocking down a trellis work fence, and] doing other slight damage. Tin attempting tb jump the outer fence into the road the animal got hung tip, but was r.eleagefj before anything serious happened.' There was quite an exciting time in Kimbolton road yesterday afternoon, when two bolts took place at the same time, and in both instances, strange to say, the animals wbich took fright were attached to bakers' carts, It appears tbat one cart, driven by Master Humphrey, of Bunny* thorpe, acconmahied by his sister, waa standing opposite Mr Bishop's shop, ana while the lad was in the act of getting into the trap tbe backhand broke, and the shafts falling to the ground startled the horse, wbich started off at a mad pace up the road with the little girl still in the vehicle. Mr Gould's cart was in front, with a young horse in the shafts, and the clatter of the runaway behind it, with the screaming of the girl, had > the effect of putting this horse also to flight, and the pair of them tore up the road. Mr Gould, finding himself being overtaken, and fearing a collision, pulled his horse off the road, and the animal finally brought tip with it's head in the drain opposite the Barracks, from which it was extricated alter some difficulty by willing hands who quickly gathered on the spot, and fortunately neither hprsp, trap, nor driver, were injured. The other auimalcontinued its course until opposite Mr Saxdhls residence; wbere.lt fell, and luckily the girl, whb h_a stiick bravely to her seat, ' rolled " out without being hm't. The horse _nd trap . escaped uninjured, but there was* very little left of the harness. However Mr Saxon kindly lent Humphrey his set,' and he was thus enabled' to resume his journey home. Jt i, a wonder that the accident did hot result more seriously. : ""7