Serious Accident.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 126, 23 April 1884, Page 2

Serious Accident.

.^,»r&. ... The Foxtoh puffer gives the following fuller particulars of the accident •"referred to m laii nigfrj^jssue :— kA. Very painful!;:ucci'lelru&J[j(a^g|ned to a man named JLlick Downey tfti|Saturday.. evening last. It appears fjfiat dorihgthe previous 'three idaya a fence hadbeen erected 1 across a track winch has for insiny^years bceu used as a^'ghprt cut " near the cemetery- by^persohsion their way Lo Moutoa. Downoy was bu jjisWay to Moutoa ? andj nojf knowing of the erection of the feYice, rod* right on to it. The hor.se recoiled, on berng piickedbyrthe barb^ and fell ovjer. . 'Downey, who is* a powerful man, then "endeavoured to hol(} -the animal down v }intil ih*jcourd/ getiip, biit during jit^ struggles the least roHed'dn tophfj. , unfortunate man, whose righc thigh: • bone' was /broken by the concnasibn. The accident occuued about 11 p.bi,, _and during the long hours of the night the sufferer •' cooeyed " for assistance, ' hut Was unable to ■! make any one hear. During the night Downey managed to crawl some half dozen yards, dragginghis-, wounded- liuib after hun. Saturday was a vej-y cold, nigli t^and' what p.^, sutiored rn,ay be ju<Jged iroin'hi's. own words—'' 1 felt t as if I ' have thiinked some one to, sh6ob ' nY6." ' jOn ,th'e Sunday ino'rnjpg, he wits disVoV^red b v v. ]yii. Moripr^, ! wnp 4 ,ro<ie ! into 'Poitqn for assistance." 'The sntferei- wL the'u J conveyed to the Mauawafcu Hotel by Messrs Berkefeld, King, and others,' where Dv Rockstrow afterwai'ds attended to his injuries. ; 'By tKe train"' on Monday, Downey was! conveyed to the hospital, at Wanganui, wiieie we trust t,o hear of his speedy progress towards recovery. i