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A Fatal Accident

A Fatal Accident image
Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
November
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

LiSI Friil.iv cveniiifr onc of I lic s.iddc.-t acci'lenrs that we hiiTe had to chrmiicle for lome (me, occuired at the State St. (roMlnjt of the T. & A. A. R. K. Aa R iberl S Orr, lm Imi kept i email asrrlcultarol wurehouu m Detroit gtret-t, for same jrear, was drlvlng lioine from the otilon ln:iraht-s in Piítuti.-M. lip mis calculated the dUtunce oftïie evening ixpic-s ivblch was pMstm at the time they reached tlie tiwk, 'l In attvmptliig (o cross iïïiead ol it, tlie wagon was Mruck mul (leatnycH, Mr. Orr was so badly injured that he dled the next il iy, ind Sir. J. L. P. McAllister, of the 'M ward, who was tlttlnj; on the st-ut witli Mr. Orr, w..s venr seriotttly Injored also. Tiie wnjfou find harneu was literal ly torn in siueds. The liorses were not budly hint, havlng crossed the track safely, hut the harness was itrlpped off of them in a tut less linie than it takcs to tel] of it. Two men, Natlian Woodinansee, and a colored man whose name we have not been able to learn, were sitting in the back end of the wagon, ,ut jnnipeil n time to save their lives. The track 3 In plaln view for a long dlstance each way at thls crossi ng, so there can be no trouble on that score, and no accident ':as ever occuned at this point before. A jury has been summoned .ind an Inquest will be held to-day on the body of Mr. Orr.