A Painful Carriage Accident on the Shores of Lake Union
A local real estate developer suffers a severe injury after a team of horses is spooked on the outskirts of town.
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Almost everybody in Seattle knows D. B. Ward, the clever real estate dealer, who resides in a fine, large house on the southwest side of Lake Union, and they will be sorry to hear that he met with a very painful accident yesterday, which will confine him to his room for some time. Mr. Ward kept a team, and would drive in from his residence in the morning, returning in his conveyance in the evening. On yesterday afternoon Mr. Ward and his friend E. Jenner went to where the team was hitched, in the back of the Farrell Foundry lot, and started for Mr. Ward's home. In making a turn, before leaving the enclosure, the whiffletree caught under one of the horses' tails and set him kicking and jumping. The carriage lurched, throwing Mr. Ward out, his right leg striking against the end of a heavy culvert, crushing and breaking his ankle in a fearful manner. Drs. Hall and Willard were at once summoned and set the fractured limb and dressed the great, ugly wound in the side of the ankle by the blow, after which Mr. Ward was driven in a spring wagon to his home. Every effort will be made to save Mr. Ward's foot, although the wound is of a most painful and serious nature.
“The carriage lurched, throwing Mr. Ward out, his right leg striking against the end of a heavy culvert, crushing and breaking his ankle in a fearful manner.”
Accidents involving horse-drawn vehicles were common, dangerous, and frequently reported in the press as local news. This captures the era when Lake Union was still considered an out-of-town residence for the city's upwardly mobile class.
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