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Show ANGUS M'KAY AND If WSfE ARE INJURED I Thrown Under an Overturned Buggy in a Runaway and Dragged Some Distance Bones Broken and Internal Injuries Suffered May Prove to Be Fatal. , Aug s McKay and wife were the victims of m runaway horae at Hunus-ilie Hunus-ilie yesterday evening. In which tiotlv were seriously Injured. Whlln Mrs. McKay will most likely recover, Imt li'tle hope is enti-rtalned for bcr husbani, who sustained internal Injuries, In-juries, together with a broken fdioul-dT fdioul-dT bone and other severe wouuds. Mr. and Mrx. McKay were driving home from one ol their fields in a buggy hitched tn a wlnplo horse. At Spring fTfk the horse was permitted to drink, and In drinking slipped the bridle from Its head. Peeling that It was free from rextmlnt, the animal started on a trot for home, tho swinging swing-ing bridle frightening the horse Into 11 wild run. The ocmpanLs of the buggy were helping to siop the animal, ani-mal, bin clung desperately to their peats, the husband warning his wife to hold on for her life. In crossing a sin. ill bridge, the Moor of which Is slightly above the grade of the pad, one of the shafts of the buggy va jerked from its fastening. Alter the break'ng of the shaft the vehicle swung from one side of the road to the other and finally capsized, both occupants being dragged beneath it for a distance of several rods. Mrs. McKay was not rendered unconscious un-conscious and crawled from beneath the buggy, feeling thut she hod been but slightly Injured. ! r x the accinent occurred on the I main slreet ol the village. l,elp was at I ; bond almost as sfon as the hiiy .i ; overturned, and eager hands ( lifted the lody of Mr. McKay. The man was unconscious and carried to ; his home not far distant, A medlcul examination of Mr. McKay Mc-Kay showed that bis shoulder bone had been broken and the arm lone wrenched from the shoulder Joint. P His scalp was badly cut. two ribs ,j i broken and there are evidences of In- : lernal Injuries. Mr. McKay Is 71 years of ace, and 1 this fact makes Ills recovery doubtf' i. lie regained conseousres after i reaching bis home, but passed ' restless rest-less night. i Mrs. McKay had one of the bones In her lett forearm turned loose from the wrist, and It is feared that she suffered some internal Injuries. While the full extent of the internal Injuries cannot be ascertained at this time, it is believed that she will recover. Mr. McKay is one of the pioneers of Utah and Is a brother in-law of Iiavid McKay. Dr. Paul Ingebretsen. one of the physicians who attended the Injured couple- iJft night, stated this afternoon after-noon that for a man of his years Mr. McKay was in remarkably fine physical physi-cal condition, and because of this the doctor believes mat there is a possibility possi-bility of his recovery. i |