Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-24
SERIOUS DRIVING ACCIDENTS.
LEGs AND AIMS BROKEN.


Thos. j. Houghton Again Unfsrsunseo-
Further fArtfcuiaas OF the Ben
nor Runaway.
Last evening about half-past O'Clock
as Thomas J. Houghton, liveryman, was
returning from the Canstatter Volksfest
with An omnibus filled with passengers,
the left front wheel of the omnibus came
off the spindle when on North Duke street
above the railroad bridge and let the emo
of the axle down upon the ground with y
heavy thud. This frightened some of the
lady passesers who gave vent to their
fear by screaming ut the top of their
voices. Their screams frightened one of
the animals-a rather vicious mare
hitched to the omnibus, and being unable
to run away, she commenced kicking furi-
ously. Mr. HOughtOn, who was driving,
bravely kept his seat and sndeavored at
tina sarne time to quiet his team and his
passengers. At last the mare having
kicked the dasher to pieces planted h6r
irOn.sfO hOof. with fearful violence, fairly
against Mr.. Houghton's right leg, halfway
between the knee and ankle, laceratiDg the
flesh and crushing the tibia, or shiu-bone.
As quickly, as possible Mr.. HOughtOn was
taken from his seat upon the bus and car
ried into the house of Harry A. Shultz,
near by, where he received preliminary at
tentiOn from DIR. LevcrgoOd, and was sub
sequently carried tt, his home on North
Queen street, where tho fractured limb
was set by DR.. Boyd, the family MUSICIAN,
assisted by DR.. Welchans. The tibia was
found to be badly crushed, the fracture
being . compound one. but the fibula, the
smaller bone OF the leg. is uninjured. MIR.
HoughtOn has been peculiarly unfortunate
since he has been in the livery business,
being once before almost kicked to death
by horse, besides suffering . number of
minor accidents and losses by runaways,
death of horses and dishonest patrons.
To-day he is doing rs we'll as could be ex-
pected. It should l,e mentioned that the
horse whose bad conduct resulted 80 dis
astrously does not belong to Mr.. HOugh-
toms livery, but was merely boarded
there by the owner, Frank Hartmyer.
At the time of the accident it was
thought that one Of the lady passengers
was seriously injured, rs sho screamed
fearfully and soon became unconscious.
She was carried into the residence of John
Z. Roth, where DIR. Welchans attended her.
1t was soon ascertaint,d that she was un-
hurt aud had simply tainted from fright.
The accident was caused by the loss of
a nut on tho end of the spindle, which
holds the wheel in place. This nut was
afterwards found on the pike near Nc
Grann's farm, showing that the omnibus
had run safely for more than u mile after
the loss of the nut, before tho accident
occurred. '.i.t tisah
The Bsnner Accident. Z,
Mr.. II. F. Benner, of East Lampetcr,
furnishes US some further particulars of
the terrible runaway accident on SATURDAY.
last near the railroad bridge that crosses
the Big ConestOgs, by which his wife and
mother was SO seriously injured. Mr..
Benner was driving to Lancaster in COM
pany with his wife and mother, and when
about 125 yards from the cars the lOcomO-
tive blew off steam, soaring his horse,
which ran furiously. In Attempting to
hold the horse, Mr.. Benncr pressed SO
hard against the dash board that it was
broken of, and he thus lost tho means of
proppins himself to pull upon the reins.
The horse ran the carriage against
q bank, and tho occupants were
thrown out one after the other. Mr.. Ben
ner escaped with some cuts aud conclusions.
His mother had both arms broken at the
wrist, and the small bone Of one arm
broken near the elbow. Ono of her legs
was also badly cut below the knee. Mr..
Benner's wife was caught in the lines,
when she was thrown out of the wagon,
and was dragged for some distance. She
appears to have held on to the left rein in
such way as to draw the horse towards
the fence, causing the carriage to be
thrown over in the opposite direction; At
the same moment, the horse became Olsen.
gagged from the wagon and Mrs. Benner
from ther ENHANCEMENT in tho lines, other
wise she would surely have been killed.
Both the bones of her left leg were frac-
tured-the larger bone bsiD. split in three
different places and the smaller one
broken off near the ankle. The knee.cap
was also badly fractured. The unfortu-
nate ladies were taken to ii. F. Benner's
where the broken bones were set and
other necessary attention given them.
They occupy the same room, and are to-
day rs comfortable as their serious inju-
ries will admit of.