It becomes our painful duty to herald one of the most
heart-rending accidents that has ever come to our knowledge or happed in our
county. Last Thursday Mr. McMichael,
residing some three miles east of Amity, sent his son, some 12 or 13 years of
age, to Amity, on horseback, to get his mail matter. The mail carrier was somewhat behind his
regular time, and the boy had to wait till after dark to accomplish the object
of his errand. About 8 o’clock he
started homeward. About a mile from
town, upon the road, a ditch had been dug for the purpose of draining a slough,
and a bridge put across it which was several feet above the surface. The boy had not been seen after leaving town
until about nine o’clock, when a sled load of young people were passing along,
and by this bridge they discovered a horse lying upon his back in the
ditch. Approaching the spot the
discovered the lifeless body of the boy, under the horse, perfectly cold. He had fallen across the ditch with head and
feet resting upon the bank of either side, and the horse had fallen lengthwise
in the ditch with his back upon the boys breast. And in this position he perished, if he was
not killed by the fall. He was conveyed
to the house of his parents, who were waiting anxiously for the news, little dreaming that tidings of
such a sorrowful nature was in store for them, and the feelings of the parents,
brothers and sisters can only be imagined as the lifeless body of their boy was
ushered into their presence. – {Page County Herald.
LUK IMUS FOUND. – Last week we gave an account of the
freezing to death of Daniel and Luke Imus, in Adair county, only one of them,
Daniel having been found. We have since
learned that Luke was found dead, on the 22nd, about three miles north of where
Daniel died. Our informant says “it is
probably that he died a natural death the corpse was properly laid out, the
face and hands covered, and head laid upon a carpet sack. It would appear that Daniel remained with his
brother until he died and then, being unable to reach a house perished with
cold. He, no doubt, lost sight of his
own safety in his anxiety to preserve the life of his brother. The two brothers were on their way to visit
their mother, in Ringgold county, when they were so suddenly snatched from
life. Their fate forcibly illustrates
the truth, that in the midst of life we are in death. – {Cass County Gazette.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 8, 1862, p. 2
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