BOY’S TERRIBLE ACCIDENT

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 63, 19 March 1913, Page 3

BOY’S TERRIBLE ACCIDENT

REMARKABLE FEAT OF ENDURANCE.

Gunnedah (N.S.W.), March 10. A dreadful accident occurred to a

boy, Stanley Huxley, aged 13, on Saturday. He was driving fi sulky at the tail of a mob of sheep, travelling to Mullaley, and using a long stick to poke the sheep along. The sulky capsized on a stump, and he was thrown sharply out. His right leg caught between the body of the sulky and the wheel, and was broken clean off above the knee. The broken limb fed to the ground. The horse moved a low yards, but the boy crawled after it and crawled into the sulky leaving bis leg behind him. He called to the men in charge of the sheep, and .vhen they came along he asked them to put his leg in,to the' sulky. He was driven to the hospital at once, fainting on,the way from shock and Joss of blood. At the hospital a further part of the leg was amputated. The Telegraph states that although in very low condition he is expected to recover.