The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-15
FLUNG FROM BUGGY
Mr.. M. S. Hackney Receives
MostDangerous Injuries.
A White Man Named Wilkins R. ceiyeS Ter
rible Blow on the Head From a
Negro.
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Durham, N. c., Sept. 14-Mr. M. S.
Hackney is now at deaths door as a re-
suit of being thrown from a buggy by a
runaway horse yesterday afternoon. He
was hurt about o'clock yesterday and
since then he has been unconscious. His
condition is extremely serious, as he is
partially paralyzed and is suffering from
a severe concusson of the brain.
Yesterday about 1 o'clock, Mr.. Hackney
and his son, Hoyt, went out for a drive.
When near the county home, some four
miles from town, one shaft of the buggy
dropped to the horses heels, causing the
animal to run away Both occupants of
the buggy were thrown to the ground.
The son escaped without being injured in
the least, but the father was badly hurt.
There are two or three small wounds
about his head, but the main injury is in
ternal. The attending physicians fear that
he cannot recover.
Two of his sons are proprietOrs of the
drug firm of Hackney Bros, and he is Il
brother of the late Editor E. G. Hackney.
There came near being homicide here
yesterday. A white man by the name of
Joe wilkins was knocked in the head by
a negro named Everett McIver, pick
handle being used. AT first it was thought
that the blow on his head would prove
fatal, but he is said to be out of danger
today The two men worked at the stables
of the Jourdan Transfer Company and got
into dispute. Watching his opportunity
the negro struck Watkins in the fore
head and on the bridge of the nose a ter
ric blow, evidently intending killing him.
The nose bone was crushed and bad
wound made. Watkins was carried to the
Watts Hospital where he is being treated.
The negro ran off after striking the blow
and has made his escape.
Mr.. c. " Strickland, who has been mas
ter mechanic for the Bull factory auto
matte department, left this afternoon for
Newark to make his home. He has been
transferred there by the American Tobacco
Company.
Archdeacon P. c.. Webber, of Boston,
is conducting a series of meetings at the
st. Philip Episcopal church this week On
tomorrow afternoon at 4;30 o'clock he will
deliver a sermon-lecture on the Passion
Play. AT that time he will tell of the orig
inal Passion Play which he witnessed
while on one of his trips to Europe Mr..
Weber is very forceful speaker He
will conduct meetings at Burlington, Gra-
ham. and other places, taking two or three
months in this State.
Miss Laura Radcliff died today
at one o'clock, typhoid fever being the
cause of her death. Typhoid fever has
gone through Inis family and the father,
w. r. Radcliff, is now extremely i'll at
the Watts Hospital He is not expected
TO live. He has not been apprsed of the
death of his daughter. A few days ago
Mrs. Radcliff went to visit him and when
she started to leave he told her to hurry
home and not let Laurie die" Another
daughter is now convalescent 1t is thought
that the disease was contracted by drink
ing water from an old well that had been
unused for sometime
Trinity College and Trinity Park High
School are now getting down to work in
earnest. Both the college and high school
nave larger number of students now than
they did at any time last year. The stu
dents are all well prepared, the new stu
dents having passed a rigid examination.