FATAL ACCIDENT IN DIXON-STREET.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3033, 19 October 1888, Page 2

FATAL ACCIDENT IN DIXON-STREET.

[' Child Exiled. iL :^ | Shortly before |wo o'clock " this ' afternoon a dreadful 'accident occurred ■ in Dixon-street, whereby a little i girl three years old, .daughter of Mr 1 George Ward, painter, of this town lost her life... '•'!•■ - We leam from aii;oyo, witness tho following particular^: ' Mr John Falk, iii tho employ-of Mr J. G, Mackay, b'akor, Kurupuni, was following his usual ocoiipation of delivering bread. • In tho course of his rounds he arrived, in front of tlift residence of Captain Condon,, of the Salvation Army, ]4lk left his horse' and cart standing in'the road, as is usual in such oases, jwhilst attending* at tho houso of a his tempqrary.-absenpo the horse from some unknown causi'suddenly .tookfright and. started !)ff at, a gallop along|the road. It then swerved'and : rushed-through a closed gate at the side'of; Mr Georgs Ward's,house, smashing down all ,impediments in its mad career. • Unfortunately there )vero several cjiildrpp playing in the before they could be wariied,of their, danger, -tho .. horse and Vehicle was in their inidsfc, The oluldren scattered right and left, but the youngest- (if . them, before she coulc^get out of th 6 way was- struck tho'.liead, kiiocliod down, and lulled instantaneously, .The little gjri w(is;klien into.the .house,- and Dr Hosting Bent for, but she was' past his; help.' Great'sympathy is felt for the parents; in this'sudden and calamity. -