EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 973, 18 December 1882, Page 4

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 McGregor, was standing on the road when a person on horseback was passing and before the poor girl could get but of the way the animal stumbled and fell on top of her. In stumbling , the animal somehow threw up a lump of a stick 4ft long and about the thickness of a man’s wrist. In falling the blunt end of the stick was in 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, entering 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 of the poor girl, after several ineffectual attempts, succeeded in dragging the stick out of the poor little sufferer's body, the end being still 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 child’s body that all the bark was peeled off. "Dr Haley did all in his power for the poor little sufferer, but considers the case a hopeless one.”