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Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1745, 9 March 1874, Page 4

The anniversary of the Emperor of Austria's accession twenty-five years ago was observed throughout the empire with g ?at rejoicings and fetes. The particulars of a serious accident which occurred on the l]»h February, in ihe immediate neighborhood of Retchworth. are siven by the Ovens and Murray Advertiser: — "Three boys, son of Wm. Thomas,, a well-known splitter living on the ranee this side of Hurdle. Flat, by the back track, and whose wife keeps a fruit and effee shop in Ford street, left home for Beechworth in a one-horse dray, at about 7 o'clock. It seems that Ihe second eldest boy, in harnessing the horse, left the bit out of his mouth, and in coming down the Red Hill, at the back of Mr DarvalPs, the animal was startled at something and set off at a gallop, the eldest boy, who had the reins, having of course no control over him. ' The dray npset, and one of the boys is said to have been pinned under the box of the wheel, which rested on his back. The youngest boy, only six years of age, escaped uninjured, but the second eldest sustained a dislocation of the shoulder. The eldest b<>y is suffering from concussion of the brain »nd a broken wrist, and is in a very precarii.us state. They were discovered by some other children, and Mr A. Pritchard and others immediately proceeded to the spot and carried the injured boys to the residence of Mr Frederick Brown, who placed hia buggy at their disposal, in which they were conveyed to the district hoipitftU '