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A Chapter Of Accidents

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Day
25
Month
August
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
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Last Monday iraavery prollflc in acci= dents, and runawavs, and had the öld adage., " As goes Monday, so goea the wholo treek," proved Itself a one, " ye local " wouiii have foond his time well pccüpled in chroDiclIng tbem, and had a ons: list to lav beïorc the Auaus readers, but We are pleased to say tir.it thls o!d saW was Ui ariy a fttlltlre. Jous J. FosTBa, Monday foivnoon, went to PoiiHKMua iX Öom'b Hvery atable and proenred a horse and enfriare, and vrhlle driv. inji out o'' tlio stable onc of the roar wlieels ran otf. Tliis frt.ifhtened the hol'se wliich Btarted op Halu street, anl aftei liavinj; gone aboitt half the leng"!! of a bloeW tbe carriage turned over, with the ï-eiüahiinir wlieels in tlie air, and Mr FoSTKR on the ander stde, and was dragged in tuis manner to tlie corner of the Court House square, wli ive the ho:-se was stopped by Slis IIockins. Mr. POSTER was notserious" ly Injured, strange to sty, bilt llic lm.2y was Bomewhat smashed. Th-1 accident was caused by the neglect of tlie person who greastd the carriage to replace the uut which held the Wheeli Mr. E. Wii.dt, while di'ivinsfon the plank, jnst somh of the city, nitt with a tip over also. The horse beeaine frlghtened and shled out, preclpatlog Mr. W. and three chlldren who wcre With him- 'one Mr. DuAi-Kr and the otliertWO Mr. ScitnörrKRni:c k's -into tlio ditch. No lnjury was lone fartber thao a Beven scare. MesBrs. JI. Hinder and J. ElSbE Wcre hrown from a boggf tlie same day, the larUcolara of which we did not learn. A colored man worklng upon the Uni'enlly ba lid lag, was serionsly injiifcd by a lot of falling bliek coming lu coutact viüi h is head. A man In the emplo? of IL Kjttuidgk ïad nis leg broken by the falling in of a Kink at the gravel pit, upoa Wliicli he was at work, All of these Mon.lay ! Will thls nol taülsh the superstltion so pi'evalcut that Prlday is the nnlucky dayf lyast Wcrlnesday, just afteruoon, while Mr. C. M. Vas Uiiïson, of York, was unoading some wheat at the depot, his team leeame Brtghtened at the whlstling of the cars, and turned up Detroit street on a full nu. They wcre bronght up on thelr jourïey at the corniT of Main and Huron St's. y the Rtambtlng of one of the liorses. No natcrial damage was done. Last Saturday, while Mr. A. II. Mahkli.it was exerctslng a span of young hors 's, previous to glvlng hls Family a ride, tlioy brcame uninanageable, rail away, and vhi'ii opposlte tlie resldence of Mr. V. W. Winks, on South Main St., rail Into the bank on the side of the street, spllled out Mr. M., and made klndllng woodof the cariage.

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Old News
Michigan Argus