Greer CO OK - Newspaper Article  An Olustee Mail Carrier had a Leg Torn off in a Runaway

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March 2, 1905, Sun Monitor, Mangum, OT., page 1


AN OLUSTEE MAIL CARRIER HAD A LEG TORN OFF IN A RUNAWAY
Died from the effects.



J.W. Carter, who has been carrying the mail between Carmel and Olustee died 
on Saturday, February 25th, from the effects of a run-away accident which 
occurred the day before. It was at Mr. Carter's home near Carmel, his sons had a 
young horse hitched to a two wheeled road cart and were attempting to break it 
to drive. Their handling of the animal seemed not to please the old gentleman and 
he had them hold it while he got in the cart and told the boys to turn the animal 
loose which they did. 

The horse started to run and one of the wheels struck a sage brush bump jolting 
the old gentleman from his seat, his right foot run through the spokes of the 
wheel and caught locking the wheel so that it slid for a hundred yards then striking 
a sand bed when the spectators were horrified to see the man's foot and leg fly 
thirty feet into the air.

The sand bed gave the wheel more power and the leg was broken just below the knee 
and actually torn off and thrown into the air while the man fell backwards to the 
ground. The skin was all pulled off from the knee and the leaders had torn out 
chunks of muscle. Mr. Carter lived about 24 hours after the accident and the shock 
was so great that he felt no pain until the next day. For several hours before his 
death however, he suffered great agony. 

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