INJURED IN A RUNAWAY

GAMMON, PICKARD

Posted By: Nancee Seifert (email)
Date: 11/23/2009 at 17:27:55

Decatur County Journal
Leon, Iowa
Thursday, March 2, 1911

Sunday as Mr. And Mrs. D.G. GAMMON and daughters, Misses ZOA and PEARL, and
CLARENCE PICKARD, who is working at the GAMMON home, were returning from
church, the mule team drawing the carriage occupied by them, became
frightened just after crossing over the bridge west of the K. & W. Tracks on
west commercial Street and Wheeling suddenly overturned the vehicle throwing
the occupants out. Mrs. GAMMON sustained a fracture of the collar bone on
the right side and the others suffered painful bruises. The mules ran
through a fence and a short distance into a field on the Ed. H. Sharp farm
where they stopped. The top was torn from the carriage and a little farther
on the single trees snapped in twain leaving the carriage standing. The
mules had been frightened by a section of snow and ice falling from the
fence at one side of the road as they were passing.
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Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert
November 22, 2009
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