Horseplay causes injury

SMITH, VOTE, WARE

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 3/26/2007 at 15:55:46

"Fairfield Ledger Weekly", October 7, 1869

Accident.--- A young man named ------ SMITH, of the firm of VOTE & Co.’s Furniture Factory, was thrown from his horse, on Wednesday last, and very badly injured. The display of saddle horses was called for, and some twenty, or more entered the ring, and a breakneck speed of horses commenced. When at the east side of the ring, SMITH’s horse “flew the track,” ran with his rider against a tree and falling on him, very badly bruising his left leg, and the ligaments, connecting the upper and lower portions of the leg, at the knee, were broken. Dr. WARE, attended the patient, and though he is badly injured, will in time recover.

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