An Extraordinary Case.
A peculiar accident has happened at Woorangee. A man named Mclntosh (tttftti the Wilcannia Times), accompanied by his wife and family,. was driring towards Yackandandah, when he met » mob p£ buttocks,- driven by a man named Parnaby; The latter cracked bis whip, and Mclntosh 's horse taking fright •weWed off tnio. a craelc. Two of hie children were thrown over the dashboard, and the horte- trod upon the 'head of a little boy, agdd two years old, and crashed it so that the. skull, was smashed, and the brauaa protruded* .Dr. Mueller was sent for and ordered the removal of the child to the Orens District Hospital. On arriving there at 10 o'clock at ni«ht the child was promptly treated, by Dr Dodbynj who removed a piece of skull one mi* hilt 'inches square anda portion of the brain. Next morning the child was* quitaconioiout, and asked for a drink of «*%',,';.. ,-:■:,.. , . .•,;.-■■.. ■■ r-.h :. t
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 109, 3 April 1884, Page 3
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156An Extraordinary Case. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 109, 3 April 1884, Page 3
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