Greene-Union County PA Archives News.....Accidents May 3, 1834
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  The Daily National Intelligencer May 3, 1834
  "ACCIDENTS
  
       Three accidents, all of a distressing nature, two of them terminating
  fatally, recently occurred in Greene county, Pa. A few weeks since, a daughter
  of Enoch South, of Dunkard township, aged about 14 years, left her father's
  house, on horseback, to take three or four persons their dinner, who were at
  work on the farm. Shortly after leaving the house, the horse became frightened
  at the rattling, it is believed, of the plates-threw her from the saddle, but
  her foot becoming fastened in the stirrup, and not being able to extricate it or
  stop the horse, she was dragged a considerable distance, and so injured as to
  cause her death almost instantly.
       On Tuesday afternoon, the 6th instant, Elizabeth, oldest child of Mr.
  Samuel Caldwell Orr, of Dunkard township, aged 2 years and 3 months, stepped out
  of the back door of its grandfather's (the Rev. Thomas Mapel's) house, with a
  piece of bread in its hand. In a minute or two afterwards, a mare came up to the
  child, caught its arm in her mouth, lifted it off the ground, and struck it with
  one of her fore feet, from the effects of which the child died in about nine hours.
       Last Tuesday, Eli, son of Richard Dong, Esq. of Jefferson township, aged
  about 12 or 14 years, attempted to spring from the ground upon a horse's back;
  but the horse at the same moment jumped forward-threw the boy back-his foot
  caught in the reigns of the bridle, and he was dragged by the foot nearly a
  quarter of a mile, the horse running at full speed the whole distance. Although
  much injured, he was recovering when last heard from.
       ANOTHER.-Mr. Peter Hillish, of Freeburg, Union county, was thrown from his
  horse on Wednesday the 11th inst. and died soon after. - Pa. Inquirer [Reprinted
  in the (Washington, D.C.) Daily National Intelligencer on 03 May 1834]."
  
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