Extraordinary Accident.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 34, 5 January 1883, Page 2

Extraordinary Accident.

The Wangatta Despatch narrates the following particulars of an accident which occurred at Eldorado on a recent , evening. "It appears that a girl aged about 10 years, daughter of Mr nlcGregor, was standing on the road when a person on horseback was passing and before the poor girl conld get out of the way the animal stumbled and fell on top of her. In Btumbling the animal somehow threw up a lump of a stick 4ft long, and about the thickness of a mau's wrist. In falling the blunt end of the stick was m contact with the horse's shoulder, the sharp end meeting the girl's right breast. The weight of the falling horse sent the stick right through the poor child's body, entoring at the right breast and coming out at her back by the shoulder, and then entering the ground pinning her to the earth. The mother ot the poor girl after several ineffectua attempts, succeeded m dragging the sticfc out of the poor little sufferer's body the end being stiil covered with earth after coming right through, the precaution of cleaning the end before drawing it not having been thought of. So great was the force which sent the wood through the chili's body lhat all the bark was peeled off. Dr Haley did all iv his power for the poor little sufferer, but considers the case a hopeless one/ (