Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-07-27

The LATE FATAL ACC1DENT-Mr James
NJ. Bunce kept horse and wagon, and was
III the habit of making short excursions in
the country generally with the family, but fire.
quently he invited members of the Pearl
Street Church and Sabbath School to accom-
pany him on these excursions. On Thursday
afternoon he invited Misses Fanny and Bell
Camp, daughter of Mr.. Joseph Camp, and
members of Mr.. BIS Sabbath School,) and
Mr. j. Allen Francis, teller of the City Bank,
to accompany him to Newington. They left
the city at about o'clock in the afternoon and
proceeding by way of the New Haven turn
| pike, took the Ncwington road which load
over the mountain into the village They
reached the sumit of the mountain and
soon after they began to descend, the breech-
ing-layer broke out at the breeching-ring,
and let the whitiie-tree against the horses
heels, which so frightened him that he start
ed into a dead run. The ladies natural
ly enough, were alarmed, but Mr.. Bunce
expressed his belief that he should be able to
control the horse and stop him as soon as they
reached the foot of the hill, and they therefore
remained quiet in their seats holding on firm
ly, for fear OF being thrown out when the wag-
gon bounded over the rough places in the road.
They proceeded in this way at fearful rate
for nearly half a mile down the mountain,
sometimes almost touching the trees that stood
on the road and near the wheel track, until
they came to sudden turn in the road, near
the foot of the hill. Here the horse turned
partly out of the road, the wheels struck a
stone or bog, and Miss Fanny Camp, who was
sitting on the front seat with Mr.. b., was
thrown out on one side of the wagon, and
Mr.. B. on the other Mr. B. was thrown into
the air so far that he entirely cleared the
Wagon and come down several feet from
the track striking the ground very heav-
lily. He fell with the reins in his hands
and was dragged several feet before he reln-
pushed his grasp. AS soon as he let go the
rains, however, the horse took to the road
again, and ran at his utmost speed until lie
came to where the road is level, or nearly so,
and then he gradually slackened his pace, so
that Mr.. Francis undertook the hazardous ex-
pertinent of climbing over the dashboard for
the reins These he secured, and very soon
succeeded in stopping the horse. After hitch
ing him to the fence, he returned, in company
witlfMiss Bell Camp, to the spot where Mr.
B. and Miss c. were thrown out, distance of
about half a mile. Here they found Mrs
Hubbard, an elderly lady who lived near by,
and young man who saw the accident who
were doing what they could for the relief of
the sufferers.
Miss L. Camp was able to walk about but
Mr.. Is. was unconscious, and the blood was
flowing freely from two severe wounds on the
back of the head. There was also a bad bruise
on the forehead, and one knee and arm were
badly bruised and lacerated. Mr.. Francis, as
sisted by Mrs Hubbard and the young lad,
succeeded in carrying Mr. b. distance of sew
eral rods to the house Of Mr.. JOINER, near the
church, when everything possible was done for
his comfort, and Mr. Hubbard was immediate
ly dispatched to this city and informed his
friends, and Doctors Hunt and Hawley, Rev.
Mr.. Beadle, his brother, John l.. Bunce,
Messrs. lIillyer, Thomas Smith, and other
friends, went out. Mr.. Bunce has lain in a
state of Inconsistencies till his death at 1913
this morning. He would have been So years
old in October.