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The Daily Dispatch: March 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], Yankee Raids on the Virginia Central railroad --damage thus far Trifling — Exciting rumors of the enemy's movements. (search)
Frightful Accident.
--About one o'clock yesterday afternoon a horse which William S. Dawes, a youth about fourteen years of age, son of Mr. Samuel S. Dawes, formerly a merchant of Norfolk, Va., was riding, became frightened at some object on the street and dashed off at full speed.
After running the distance of, perhaps, a mile, the little fellow became completely exhausted from his attempts to rein the animal up, and when near the corner of 10th and Marshall sts., fearing he could not retain his seat in the saddle much longer, he made a spring for the ground, but one of his feet becoming entangled in the stirrup, he was dragged some distance, head downward, until the horse could be stopped.
When extricated from his perilous situation, young Dawes was in a senseless condition.
He was taken into the Baptist Institute Hospital and his wounds examined, when it was found that his right leg, about half-way between the knee and the foot, was broken, besides receiving several cuts an