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Show ACCIDENT. On Monday afternoon a frightful accident occurred in Dry Canyon, at a point about six miles from Logan. A young man named Joseph Fredericksen was engaged in snaking a huge log-about two feet in diameter and 40 feet long, around a steep hill-side which was partially covered with snow; when the log received a sudden impetus and shot forward with terrific force, striking the oxen which were dragging it, and badly injuring one of them. Young Fredericksen, who was some distance below, without thinking of his own safety, started forward to relieve the animals. But before they had proceeded far, the butt end of the log swung around-down the hill side, acquiring a terrible momentum by the time it reached him. It struck him on the legs below his knees, and knocked him headlong. His face was bruised, and one of his limbs frightfully crushed. A young companion, Andrew Monk, assisted him down to the road, about a third of a mile distant, then placed him on an ox cart and conveyed him to his home in this city. Doctor O. C. Ormsby was called in, and after an examination he found that the left leg had suffered a compound comminuted fracture-one bone being broken in two places, and the other bone in one. Between the first mentioned fractures for a space of six inches the flesh was torn loose from the bone. Everything that surgical skill suggest was done for his relief, and a complete cure will probably be effected. |