Record Data
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
Transcription
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.
