Serious Accidents

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 39, 16 September 1890, Page 2

Serious Accidents

♦___ — On Sunday morning last, when Miss Jane, the third daughter Walter Bailey, Esq., of Taonui, was riding to church, her horse bolted. It appears that the horse was in high fettle, and although broken to the side-saddle, was somewhat dangerous to ride by a lady, but as Miss Bailey is an accomplished horsewoman, no doubts were felt as to her ability to keep the animal under proper control. She was accompanied by a younger brother also on horse back. What startled the horse, of course, is not known, but anyway it became unmanageable and bolted. With a cotnmendable, but mistaken, desire to render assistance, the brother and several other horsemen, galloped after the excited animal, which was now thoroughly alarmed. Being a bit of a racer, it soon got clear, and after galloping round the block, past Cobbe and Darragh's into Manchester street, continued Until it reached the corner turning into Fergusson street, where it collided with one of the posts of Mr Keen's verandah. Miss Bailey was thrown violently to the ground and sustained severe bodily injuries, a blow on the head inducing concussion of the brain. Mr Keen at once had her taken' within where every possible attention was shown the sufferer. Dr Charlton was quickly in attendance and did all that was possible. Miss Bailey recovered consciousness about 2 o'oclock in the afternoon, or three hours after the accident, when she was removed to the Empire Hotel, where she now lies. On Saturday afternoon near Curl's clearing, 33 miles from Feilding, where a party of men, working for a contractor named Wishaw, were bushfelling, one of the men named Dinny Drew, who is well known in Palmer a ton, was felling a tree with another man. The tree " came back" and caught on another standing tree, and sprung back. The other man, Appleton Donaldson, got out of the way, but Drew was too late and owing to the ronghness of the ground, was struck on his right side by one of the limbs of the Jailing tree. His mates at once went to his assistance, but Donaldson in the meantime had lifted the branch, and took it off Drew. A stretcher was made at once and Drew carried into the camp.,.' The party arrived there about four o'clock. One of the hands then went out and collected men from the other camps to assist in conveying the injured man to Birmingham. They started on Sunday morning about eight o'clock and arrived, at Birmingham about four in the afternoon. Drew received every attention at Mr Lowe's Hotel, where he was examined by Dr Mussen, who said his injuries were such that it was. absolutely necessary he should be sent to the hospital. Yesterday morning Drew was brought to Feilding in Mr Lowes' buggy, and after he had a rest at Mrs Oliver's Hotel, he was sent by the mail tram to the Wanganui Hospital. The conduct of Drew's mates and the other men who assisted to carry him so many miles over a rough country deserves the highest praise. Yesterday when a young man named Cook was cutting firewood at Makino his axe slipped and cut a deep gash in his thigh. Dr Charlton was sent for and put stitches in the wound, which was a clean cut of about eight inches long.