Friday, August 8, 2008

Perhaps Mortally Hurt.

New York, 1895

Peter Gerringer, a nephew of Jacob Hilb, of Hicksville, was seriously injured Monday morning by being kicked by a horse. The boy will probably die. He was leading the horse from the blacksmith shop when the animal turned upon him and kicked him, fracturing his skull, breaking his wrist, and cutting his face.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 14, 1895, p. 1.

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