The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-20
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That's What Lem Qulgly Caused in Our Midsi-SsvsIaI Axidsnts but no Fatalities Feet. of ka- Iamity Below

There was a curious catastrophe oc- cured in Bingville last Tuesday ev'g about D. m. when Main street was as much crowded with pedestrians as 1t ever gets crowded which aint so much. Lem Quigley who has farm over at the foot of Teck's Hill where he had lin about Is acres of corn which he had cut and left shocked in the field to be hauled to his barn later on, where he expeckts to hold a huskin bee and get all his corn husked for nothin, driv over in his two-horse wagon last Tuesday afternoon, to bring home a load of punkins from his corn field to be fed to his stock. Well, Lem he put on all the punkins which the wagon would hold with the sideboards on, and this means a good many punkins. They was great big yaller cow punkins, some of 'ern nearly foot thru. When Lem got his wagon load up he driv
 eisurely towards Bingville arriving at which he preceded up the Main street of the town, until he reached d point opposite Bill Hepburn's blacksmith shop, where he stopped his team for a mint to let the horses rest before start
 ing up the hill from there to his place, wich is at the upper end of town. This hill is quite long and steep and Lem knowed it would be good stiff pull up the hill with that big load of punkins on.
 We'll, the horses dug their toes into the dirt and worried the wagon most up the top of the hill when a turrible axident happened-the weight of them punkins broke out the tail board of the wagon and every cussed punkin started to roll back down the long hill.
 Granny Henderson, who lives nearly at the bottom of the hill, happened to be crossing the road to take home a flat iron which she had borried from Mrs. Underwood when she was struck by big punkin right in the middle of the road knocking her feet out from under her and settin her down in the dust as you might say where she set in terror while punkins of all shapes and sizes whizxed by on each side of her Ole Dad Whittleby who is as deef as post and cant here thunder happened to be out in the middle of the road at the foot of the hill where he had went to get a good view of the sky and was standin with his back up the hill tryin to hgger out what kind of weather we would have in Bingville the next day, when Anne Hillyer, who was walking along the street seen them punkins comin, and also seen what danger Dad was in, so Anne hollered and yelled and waved his hands and tried to tell Dad to get outen the road. Dad seen Anne makin moshions, but couldn't hear what Anne said. so Dad puts his hand up to his ear and says, "A little louder, Amcl" Just then a punkin hit Dad right in the small of the back and must of knocked him about 7 feet. Dad, he jumps up and turns round to see who struck him if anybody, when another punkin hits him smash in the chest, and over he goes on his back. If Dad had of laid still. the punkins would likely of went over him, but he didn't. Every time he would try to get up a punkin would knock him down agin. After Anne thought the punkins had all went bye, he run out to help Dad up, when punkin hit him a belt on the side of the head, and over he went right on top of Dad. Dad, who was purty mad by this time, seemed to think Anne was responsible for his whole trubble so he begin to hit Anne in the face with his fists. -----------, ''-----