A Perilous Encounter in Wide Hollow
A woman is severely injured after an encounter with an enraged animal on her property.
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Mrs. W. Maywald, who lives in Wide Hollow, met with a painful and serious accident on Friday last. She was trying to separate a cow from a calf, when the enraged animal knocked her down and jumped on her, breaking the poor woman's nose and a bone in her arm. Dr. Heg was summoned and dressed the injuries.
“The enraged animal knocked her down and jumped on her.”
Agricultural accidents involving livestock remain a dangerous reality of rural life in the Yakima Valley, unchanged by the passage of over 130 years.
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