A Rough Day in the Field for Finley Student
A young girl's pony ride turns into a painful accident requiring a six-hour journey for medical help.
Ruth Stevens met with quite an accident Thursday morning. She was on her pony in the field driving the other horses to the barn. Her pony, in circling around the others, suddenly stopped and threw Ruth over its head. Ruth fell on her shoulder in such a way as to dislocate it. Her mother saw that something was wrong and went to her, and after some time succeeded in getting her to the house. It was six hours later before they could get medical aid.
“Her pony in circling around the others suddenly stopped, and threw Ruth on over its head.”
In 1914, rural isolation meant a six-hour wait for a doctor after a simple fall. Today, while the Finley-Kennewick area is much more interconnected, the underlying struggle of distance and emergency access in rural Washington remains a persistent civic theme.
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