Wagon overturns, injuring two

WALTON, SHAFFER

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 3/26/2007 at 15:58:05

"Fairfield Ledger Weekly", October 7, 1869

Accident.--- On last Friday evening, a wagon containing three persons, was overturned at the corner of the road leading to the fair grounds, and the women quite considerably injured. The driver was racing with another team, and in turning the corner, the wagon was completely overturned, the wheels resting on top of the bed. Mrs. WALTON was severely injured, alighting on her shoulders, and dislocating and badly bruising it; Miss WALTON received the force of her fall on her head, causing a slight concussion of the brain, and rendering her senseless for about two hours. Dr. SHAFFER attended the patients, and after a couple of hours, so far relieved them that they were able to proceed to their homes, some three miles east of Pleasant Plain.

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