Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-05-09
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
SOME FIFTEEN OR TWENTY woaEs Al

SOME FIFTEEN OR TWENTY woMEN AND
CHILDREN TAKE A. FLYING LEAP
THROUGH THE AIR--DANGERoUs ILL
NEss OF R BEN DEJARNATT-sEv-
ERAL OTHERS SERIOUSLY INJURED
CAUSE OF THE FALL, &c.
About 10 minutes to IL O'Clock,
last Tuesday. rs w. w. Coles circus
was making its street parade around
our public square, we were standing
under the porch, which was crowded,
at Galloway's old corner. with eyes
and airs wide open, for fear some
thing would happen that we would
not hear. When the steam caliope
struck up a tune at Kabrich's corner
the crowd ON the porch moved to-
ward the outeI' edge, the better to see
and hear the music. when suddenly
our r~eportorial ear was struck with
an ominous cracking, b%etokening the
sudden dissolution of some building.
Turning IA eyes upward, the very
air seemed filled with falling women
and children, besides numerous hats,
shawls and other paraphernalia of
female decorations.
The porch was poorly built and at
the time of the accident was unsafe
to stand under the load of human be-
.ings that occupied it. 1t seems that
che crowd (some thirty in number,)
made u sudden move forward to see
and Gear the steam caliope, thereby
throwing nearly all the weight on
the outer edge of the porch, thus
causing the juists to slip from their
..fastenings on the two-inch girdcr
nailed to the wall, when the porch
with its bright crowd of living be-
ings came laundering to the sidewalk
"a distance Of some IS feet.
"A person looking at the a of
|timbers, human heads and limbs, and
listening to the shrieks of the women
and children, would have thought
The loss of life could not fail to be
great; and at first sight we were sick
ened at the cen
A large crowd rushed to the rescue
Gnd the wreck was soon cleared from
itse hspless victims. Great credit il
due Rev. Ii. B. Seely, for his efficient
service in keeping back the crowd as
We'll as rescuing tho wounded.
Among those slightly bruised, we
Noticed Mrs. John Skeliy. Her hus-
band was sitting ON the porch ON the
6Afh and rhssr the the accident, as
Die porch gave way In her efforts
10 save herself she caught hold of the
tress of her little nice, who would
have been dragged into the wreck,
bat Mr.. Kelley caught the child. thus
saving 1t from being injured
If the porch had fallen quickly
several must have been killed instant
Iiy, both from above and below; but
ut careened slowly at first and gave
the crowd under it time TO get away
and cased the fall of those from
above, otherwise the loss of life
would have been terrible.
THE INJURED.
We are unaale to get the names of
all the persons injured, as some of
their. THsside in the countr@
Below we give the names OF thosi
fmost seriously hurt:
- MRS. BEr DEJARNATT
is in q very critical condition Hel
fifth dorsal vertebra is crushed; or il
other words. her III l. is broken a
the fifth joiit., S1d he very viii
Pie a miracle. Her lower limbs ar,
~paralyz.d and will remain SO even i
Eshe lives. If her back had beer
lbroken above the nerves that rul
off to the heart and lungs,s she woulG
have died instantly.
MRS. DRIVER,
who lives in northwest Mexico, wa.
seriously hurt acknowledgements
sion of the spine. 1t is thought she
will recover. She did not fall from
above, and is the only one that wa,
standing below seriously hurt. L
seems she could not get away befer,
the timbers fell upon her, bruisine
ther badly.
MRS. KEETOS,
mother of DIR. keeton, fell from
sbove, breaking her right forearm
severely injuring her lower limbs
Espraining her ankle and bruising he
up in general. Hc injuries are al
Epainful-not dangerous.
MRS. III. COLLINS.
IL hurt internally; some one falling
ON her breast. She fell with he
child In her arms, but held it up owe
her head, and it IA uninjured.
MISS ADDIE DAVIS
injured her hips slightly, while
MISS MINNIE BAKER
received some rather severe brulse
On the shoulders and lower limbs.
The escape of the children SCENES
miraculous. Save n few slight cnt
and bruises, none were injured.
Several other grown persons wer
badly shaken up, among whom wer
mrs. Harve Cordner, Mrs. G. Holne
and child, Miss Keeton, Mrs. Camp
bell and others.
The injured ones are all doing we
and will finally recover, except Mrs
lDeJarnatt, who is in n very critics
1coadition as we stated above.