Alexandria (VA) Local News, “Runaway and Serious Accident,” December 14, 1861

    Source citation
    “Runaway and Serious Accident,” Alexandria (VA) Local News, December 14, 1861, p. 1: 1.
    Newspaper: Publication
    Alexandria Local News
    Newspaper: Headline
    Runaway and Serious Accident
    Newspaper: Page(s)
    1
    Newspaper: Column
    1
    Type
    Newspaper
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Don Sailer, Dickinson College
    Transcription date
    The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

    RUNAWAY AND SERIOUS ACCIDENT. – Today, about noon, a serious accident occurred on South Fairfax street, between Wolfe and Wilkes. A horse attached to a Spring Wagon, which was standing near the Tunnel, took fright at the whistle of a passing locomotive, and started at full speed up Fairfax street. A little girl of some six years of age – daughter of John Boyer – was crossing the street at the time, and was knocked down by the horse, which with the vehicle passed over her. She was considerable injured, but proper assistance having been given, she is now improving.

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