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Show A Very Sad Accident. An item that may be of Interest to some of our readers concerns Miss Harriet Elliott, who has charge of tho Presbyterian mission school at Franklin. According to tho Oneida County Republican. "On Friday Miss Elliott, the Presbyterian school teacher at Franklin planned a sllegh-rldo sllegh-rldo from Franklin to Preston to visit the Presbyterian school here. For this purpose the teacher employed employ-ed Ralph Hourth to drive tho sleigh. After tho load was made up and tho party had started down tho steep hill as they went north out of Franklin the team becamo unmanageable and went down tho hill at a high rate of speed and in making the turn to go through under the railroad a projecting project-ing bolt caught in the neck ropo of one of the horses. The ropo did not break but threw tho horse over backward back-ward onto tho sleigh Instantly killing kill-ing little Pearl Cherry, who was sitting sit-ting in front. Tho weight of the horse and tho force with which it was thrown over literally crushed the little child into a Jelly, breaking every bone in her body from her hips up. The party went sadly back to Franklin Frank-lin as soon as they could disengage themselves from the wreck. Two or three others sustained slight injuries. This Is a particularly sad affair as It makes the seventh one of that family who havo died from the result of accidents. The family havo tho sympathy sym-pathy of all In their hour of affliction." |