While tho Labour Day sports were it progress at l'otono yesterday, n rathoi serious accident occuiTeil to one of the firemen competing in tho demonstration. It appears tliat Charles Corbury, Bonja- , min Fleet, anil .T. I'nrrant mounted' tho Potone fire-curl in order to pive the hors« a drinl;. When driving round one of tlio street, comers in the town, a wheel struck : the kerbing, and the cart was over- , turned, throwing Corbury and Meet heavily to tho ground. Fleet fractured a lor just above tho ankle. ITe whr attended to by l)r. Hoss, and subsequently sent to tlio hospital. Corbury sustained , a cut on the fare. 3'nrraiit was not injured. The (iro-eart, which is sliyhtlj top-heavy, was badly smashed. :
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1583, 29 October 1912, Page 5
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119Untitled Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1583, 29 October 1912, Page 5
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