Butts County GaArchives News.....Terrible Accident November 1886
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 December 24, 2003, 6:28 pm

Middle Ga ARgus
Terrible Accident

In Union district, Saturday afternoon a terrible accident occurred by which a 
young man is maimed for life.

Young Col. Westmoreland went out hunting yesterday morning and about 3 o’clock 
started on his return home.  As he was climbing a fence, his foot slipped, and 
in trying to catch himself, the bammer of the gun struck the fence, and was 
discharged, literally tearing his arm from his body.  He was carried to the 
house, where the wound was carefully dressed. And every possible attention 
given him.  While the wound is not fatal, it is extremely painful, and will 
keep him in bed for some time to come.  He is the son of John C. Westmoreland, 
who is well known to all our readers.  Young Westmoreland was between 16 and 17 
years of age – Griffin Sun.

Middle Ga Argus – Week of November 19,1886


This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/

File size: 1.3 Kb