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From: "Mary Heaphy" <>
Subject: [IRL-TIP] Clonmel Chronicle Sat. evening. Jan. 13th. 1877
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:21:55 -0000

Clonmel Chronicle Sat. evening. Jan. 13th. 1877

Accident.

On the 11th inst, William Hynes of Annacarty, while conveying a load of hay
from Tipperary to his residence, met with an accident which was very near
terminating fatally to him. The accident took place within three hundred
yards of the Police Station of Shanballymore. His horse stumbled under the
load of hay, upsetting himself, cart, and load of hay into the dyke, and
flinging Hynes partly underneath the body of the car. Constable O'Connell
and Reynolds, the only men in the station at the time, hearing some
distressing screams, hastened to the spot for the purpose of ascertaining
what was the matter. Observing from a distance a great pile of hay in a
gripe on the roadside, they made for it, and on coming nearer they saw a
horse tackled to the overturned car, and plunging violently, while a man was
lying half buried under the load, and almost sufficated. The Constables set
to work at once, and securing the horse, succeeded in rescuing Hynes from
his perilous position. Later in the day the poor man, with the assistance of
some of his neighbours, left for his home. He is not, apparently, seriously
injured, although a delay of a few minutes longer before being rescued may
have proved fatal.

Mary

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