The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-07
LAD IS KILLED IN STREET.
LITTLE GEORGE DORSEY, AGED
4, STRUCK BY A HORSE.
PLAYING IN FRONT OF HOME
A Team Of Horses, Frightened by the
Rafting Of Tin Cans at Their Ears,
SwerVed Out Little From the Road
and George Was Too Near.
[From Wednesday,s Daily.l

IFrom Wednesdays Daily.1
Little four-year-old George Dorsey,
son of Conductor and Mrs. Jack Dor
sey of Norfolk, while playing in the
road in front of his fathers house on
South Fourth street, was struck by
a passing horse which was frightened
by children, and died later last night
as a result of ruptured spleen.
The horse which struck the little fell
low was one of the team drawing one
of the United States mail wagons. The
horse SHE'D out of the road when a
cluster of children on the other side
of the road ratified tin cans, and the
little Dorsey lad was close enough to
the center of the street to be struck
when the horse jumped. There was
only a slight mark on the childs body
but it is believed by DR.. Tashjean, who
attended the case, that the spleen and
perhaps some other organ was ruptur.
ed and that the boy bled to death. The
little victim suffered such a very
severe nervous shock that an opera
ton was out of the question.
No Blame Attached to Driver.
The children were playing merrily
in the street after supper and the
evening grew dark. Shortly after
o'clock the United States mail wagon,
carrying mail to the postoffce from
the Black Hills passenger train which
had just arrived at the Junction de-
pot from the east, came along its usual
route on Fourth street, w. j. Barnes
driving Mr.. Barnes saw that the
children were all out of his path and
away from the center of the road, so
that they could not be hurt, and nat
urally drove on toward the postottice.
Just as the team came alongside the
crowd of children, some of them on
one side of the road began rafting
tin cans and making a furious noise
and clatter. The sudden turmoil frigh-
tened the horses and they SHE'D out
little on the other side of the road,
1t CHANGED that on this other side
stood little George Dorsey and so
close to the center of the street was
he that, when the horse swerved a
trifle from it's course, the small boy
was in the way. One of the children
who saw the accident says that the
horses knee struck George in the
stomach. 1t all happened before Mr..
Barnes could possibly rein in the
frightened team, and, indeed, before
he realized that there was child on
that side of the road at all.
In fact it was not until after he
had reached the postoffice that Mr..
Barnes learned of the accident, and
he recalled nothing that indicated a
child being struck at the time. Chill
dren playing in the street said it was
mail wagon that came along, and
Mr.. Barnes has taken their word for
it that it was his horse that struck the
child.
LAS | came along that street" said
Mr.. Barnes, Il noticed crowd OF
children ahead and also canopy
topped buggy The buggy turned out
to the right when it neared the chill
dren, and apparently stopped.
therefore turned a little to the left
and, just as | reached the children,
driving around the other wagon, the
crowd began to rattle tin cans and one
can was thrown on one of my horses,
humping down from the animals back
to the tongue between the team. This
gave the horses a fright, and | pre-
sumo that it was then that the horse
jumped out to the side"
After he reached the postoffice, MT
Barnes was told that child had been
hurt and that probably his wagon did
it. When ne heard of the death he
was dumfounded.
Mr.. Barnes drives slowly and is one
of the most careful drivers in Nor
folk.
1--WE blame no one" said Mr.. Dor
sey. 1T was an accident and no one
is to be blamed at ALL"
1t was clearly an accident for which
neither the driver nor the horses were
in the slightest degree responsible
and the parents of the little victim
though heartbrOken with their sad
bereayment, attach no blame whatever
to Mr.. Barnes.
Mr.. Barnes Almost PROSTATE.
But in spite of the fact that he Is
not held in any way responsible fol
the accident, Mr.. Barnes is almos
PROSTATE with grief over the aualI
and mourns the death fully as muci
as if it were a boy of his own. H'
can not reconcile himself to his sorrow
and his nerves are all undone toda!
as a result of the sad affair.
The child lived about three hour
and a half after being struck, sue
cumbing at about 1880 last night.
Five children survive in the famil
of Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey. Mr. Dorse
is one of the well known conductor
on the Northwestern railroad wit
headquarters in Norfolk The man
friends of the family in this communit
sympathize deeply in the sad Athletic
and the many friends of Mr. Barne
deeply sympathize with him, too, b'
cauSe NJ the accident and because {