The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-10-08
ACCIDENT TO THE PRINCESS
REGENT.
THROWN OUT OF A CARRIAGE.
\ SEVERE SHOCKING DANGEROUS
HURT.
SYMPATHY OF THE PEOPLE.

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During the Garfield memorial service at Fort
Saeet Church, on Thursday last, a message was
delivered TO His Excellency Governor Dominis,
which caused him to leave the church instantly.
This hasty departure caused some surprise to the
assemblage but the occasion was not known to
those in the church till at the close of the service,
then it was learned from general street rumor
that Her ROYAL Highness the Princess Regent
had been thrown out of her carriage, and was
very dangerously, if not fatally, injured. Great
anxiety was manifest everywhere, and the
deepest sympathy was felt and expressed for the
welfare Of the good Princess.
Hon. 4. s. Cleghorn, brother-in-Iaw of Her
I Royal Highness, accompanied by DR.. Webb,
took horse about noon and galloped over the
Pail road TO Join the suffering Princess, who was
lying in a state Of suffering. At 6 pm. news
was telephoned III town that the Waimanalo
steamer was in sight, and bearing the wounded
Princess and when, at 7.15 pm, the steamer
had come alongside the wharf, a large concourse
of silent, anxious and sympathetic people had
assembled at the place of landing. Then a
deeply affecting spectacle was presented. The
Princess was lying upon n mattress on the deck.
A group of anxious friends and public officers
stood around. A beautiful night sky cleaned
overhead, and partially revealed the anxious
and sympathetic faces, that We're alternately
gazing at the face of the suffering Princess, and
then at the doctor who knelt by her side, to learn
from his expression what was the state of the
royal patient. And, at the same time, the as
sembled mass of people at the landing were
striving to peer over from the edge of the wharf
on to the deck of the vessel TO get a glimpse of
their PROSTATE chiefess and when admonished
that they were c~rowding too near, they silently
and unanimously stepped aside to await what
should be done.
1t was now learned that Her Royal Highness,
at the time of the accident, was seated in a small
buggy, or caleehe, drawn by a span of horses,
with a driver; and was proceeding on a tour
round Oahu, IL company with H. R.. H. Princess
Likeike and members of suite. The Princess
Regent was about to descend a steep pitch of
road about half n mile distant from Mr.. Boyd's
residence at Kaneohe, when a part of the harness
of one of the horses broke the span took fright
and became unmanageable, the vehicle was over
turned, falling upon the Princess who had been
previously thrown out and furthermore, the
royal lady was precipitated down a steep en-
bankment a distance of about 80 yards. When
the rest of the party Joined the suffering lady, she
was speechless for some length of time. When
she uuu recovered O1llG Hat, dhu was ClldDlC u
speak, she ordered a messenger to be dispatched
to town to her husband, Governor Dominis.
OPPORTUNITY, there happened to be near by MIR.
John Cummings, who was aware that the steamer
WaimanalO, then anchored about four miles
distant, was about to start for Honolulu. He
dispatched a messenger 20 delay her. A stretcher
was procured, Her ROYAL Highness, who re-
manned incapable of mo ament, was lifted upon
it, and thus carried all the way to the steamer
landing, a distance of abont four miles, placed
on board the steamer, and brought to town.
When considering the means to remove the
Princess Regent from the steamer to her resi-
dence, a stretcher was proposed but Her Royal
Highness objected. A baggage express with
broad floor was procured the suffering Princess
was lifted up, lying upon her mattress, by strong
and willing hands, placed gently upon the floor
of the express, and then n company of policemen
and other natives taking hold of shafts and ropes
drew along their wounded chlefess, gently and
carefully. The friends and officials who had
assembled-native and foreign-grouped around
the imprOVised ambulance the assembled null
titude formed quietly into line alongside and in
the rear,-and thus, without a sound to jar upon
the anxious emotion of the occasion, except the
subdued tramp of a sympathetic multitude, the
silent cortege moved through the streets, gaining
numbers as it went, till the ambulance reached
the entrance of the residence at Washington
Place. As 1t entered, and the gates were about
to be closed upon the anxious throng following,
the kind-hearted Princess, aware of the wish of
her people to enter, and though she could not
raise her head; gave order that the gates be left
open. The Princess was carefully removed from
the ambulance, and placed upon a couch and
when, after n time, the doctor gave assurances
that there was no evidence of any dangerous
fracture or dislocatioE, the anxieties of the
assembled people that had crowded into the
grounds of the esidence were quieted, and they
quietly and thOughtfully dispersed. We are
happy to be able to say that Her Royal Highness
to recover from the effects of the