Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-02
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
Victoria Colenist, Sept. 3Osh. |

viCtokid SOi0otbts 0Spt. JUN.
Last evening, about $50, Mr.. Smith,
residing ON Meares street, near Cook.
heard heavy groans apparently proceed
ing from the opposite side of the road.
DE immediately went across and found
gentleman coming out of the house
occupied by Messrs. Walker and Camp
bell, which is between that of Mrs. Al
iatt and Rev. Mr.. Badgley, on the cor
ner of Cook and Meares streets. There
vas light in the house where Messrs.
Walker and Campbell lived, bur no one
was there, and Mr.. Smith, seeing that
the man Was desperately woundsd in
the face, that his right eve WAS appar-
emily gone, the nose and upper part If
the face fractured, and the upper law
broken so that il fell over the lower Jaw.
at first thought the injured man was
Mr. Campbell, and that he had hurt
himself with gun, rs there was one
standing in tho hall. Mr.. Stnith imme-
diately Summoned Mr.. Robinson and
Mr.. BAdgley, and then ran down the
road until he saw Mr.. +. ). Barnard on
horseback, and asked him to summons
DIR. Matthews, who, on arriving, imme-
diately dressed the face of the injured
man and bound it up; but so dreadfully
was he dishgured that the doctor did
not know Who he was until, on being
asked, to the surprise of the doctor, who
was intimately acquainted with him,
he managed to intimate that he
was Lieutenant Lees, of Her Majesty
ship Swiftsure. Upon hearing this, DIR.
Matthews Immediately sent for DIR.
Moore, staff surgeon of the Sviftsure,
who soon after arrived. In the interval,
all that was possible had been done by
DIR. Matthews, with the assistance Of Mr.
Smith and others. On the hospital be-
ing mentioned the patient signifisd that
he wished to be sent to the Naval hospi-
tai; but that was too remote for the
wish to be entertained. On being asked
the cause of the accident, he family ar
ticulated Jaws" and on being asked if
he had been hurt by horse, he nodded
in the affirmative. A v.hicIe Was then
procured and, and attended by DR.. Mat
thews and Mr.. Smith, the unfortunate
gentleman was taken to st. Joseph's
hospital. At midnight Lieut.. Lees was
vomiting occasionally and. in spite of
the h0rrid nature of his injuries, still re-
tanned his senses, but was unable to
furnish an intelligent account of the
accident. ALI that is known is that in
the afternoon he assisted in the decora-
tipn of st. Paul's Chnrch and after
wards drove to town in Towards two
wheeled trap and dined at the Club. He
drove away from the Club about 8
O'Clock and that Was the last seen of
him until he was found on Meares
street. 1t was surmised that the trap
was upset on turning corner and that
the driver being thrown out was kicked
in the face by the horse. Lieut.. Lees,
who has wife and two children in
London, has many friends in Victoria,
who will be shocked to hear of the ter
rible and perhaps fatal accident which
has befailen him.
LATER.
At half-past one this morning Super
intendent Bloomfield and Officer Flewin,
after a long search, discovered the horse
and two wheeled trap in q deep ditch
on Cook street, near the residence of
Mr.. B0dwell. The wagon was reduced
to MatchwoOd, and the horse, badly cut
ON the left flank, had detached himself
from the shafts and stood in the ditch
calmly surveying the wreck. Beneath
the HORSES feet two Of Lieut.. Lees
teeth we're found, and on the edge Of
the ditch was his hat. The cause of the
accident ia too apparent. The unor-
tunate gentleman missed his way in the
dark, and then drove into the
ditch which at this points six feet In
depth. The trap must have been upset
at once, and Mr.. Lees, thrown beneath
the horses feet, was kicked in the face.
How no extricated himself must ever
remain n mystery, but on the edge of
the ditch where he succeeded in clam
bering out there is a greatp,ol Of blood.
as il he rested there before pursuing
his way toward the spot where he was
first seen on Meares street. The awful
agony the poor gentleman must have
endured whilst cropping his way along
the dark street with one eye knocked
out and the other closed, and the upper
part of his face hanging down, can
scarcely be imagined. DIR. Matthews
| says that when he first saw him he was
holding his detached face III his hands.
At 2 o'clock this morning scarcely any
hope was entertained of Mr.. Lees re-
oovorV.