ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
TRAP ACCIDENT AT ELTHAM. About 10.10 o'clock on Saturday morning a horse and trap belonging to Mrs. J. Taylor, of Mangamingi. and in which that lady had driven her threo little children into town, was standing outside Messrs. Taylor, Scrivener, and Co.'s shop in Bridge Street, Elthnm, when for no apparent reason the horse becamo very restive (says the "Argus"). Mrs. Taylor descended from the vehicle and went to tho. animal's head to steady it, b.ut it brolco away from her, and tearing olf its blinkers, dashed >iv.-.ay down Railway Street at a furious pace, with tho three frightened little ones. Its progress was, however, arrested by the trap coining into contact with a telegraph post, the shock of which upset tho vehicle, and threw the three children on to tho road. They all suffered somewhat serious The little boy's nose was broken, and his face badlv out. tho girl is suffering from concusnlon of the brain, while tiw baby sua- ' feAwi ft ■
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1619, 10 December 1912, Page 5
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166ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1619, 10 December 1912, Page 5
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