An Unpleasant Accident befell Mr F Roads, steward to Mr H Sartoris, in the Rushden Hall grounds on Saturday. While giving directions as to the removal of some fallen timber in the avenue he struck at a branch with an axe to show where it was to be sawn through, but the blade of the axe glanced off and inflicted an ugly wound on Mr Roads’s leg. Fortunately the wound did not extend to the bone.

Run Over by a Timber Wagon
Last night, about 6 o’clock, a timber wagon was proceeding down Midland-road, when a little boy aged about 2 years, named Hart, somehow got under one of the front wheels. The driver pulled up before the wheel had gone right over the little fellow’s legs, and first-aid was rendered by two ambulance men. Subsequently the child was taken to Dr Owen’s surgery. No bones were broken.

A Recent Accident—A few weeks ago we recorded an accident to Mr Roads, steward of the Sartoris estate. During the great storm several trees fell down in Mrs Sartoris’s grounds, and Mr Roads and others were sawing the wood so as to remove it out of the carriage way, when the saw slipped and went into Mr Roads’s leg, grazing the shin bone. Mortification, we regret to say, has now set in, and the patient is lying in a serious condition, though happily a slight improvement is now noticeable.

While Driving a Brewer’s Wagon on Rushden Hill, on Friday afternoon, a man named Charles Twelvetree fell off and injured his face. Privates J Jubb and W Parker, of the Ambulance Corps, assisted by Mr J Parker, took him home on the wheel litter.

Runaway
On Friday afternoon considerable alarm, but fortunately very little damage, was occasioned by the headlong career, through the heart of the town, of a horse and van. It appears that the driver of the horse, which belonged to Mr. H. W. Chapman, box manufacturer, was unloading goods at a factory near the Midland Station, and whilst he had entered the factory for a moment something startled the animal. It started at a rapid pace along the High-street, people scattering in all directions, and drivers of vehicles drawing quickly aside. When near the “Argus” Office the wheels of the van came in contact with the back of a trap, and two men were thrown out into the road, one alighting on his head, but both fortunately escaping without serious injury. A few yards further along, a trap belonging to Mr. Warren, butcher, was drawn out of the way, but someone attempted to stop the runaway, which caused it to swerve, the wheels catching the trap and throwing the pony clean out of the shafts on to the road. It proved, however, to be none the worse for the mishap. The horse safely rounded the turn into High-street South, and continued for some two miles along the Bedford-road, when it was stopped by Messrs. C. Robinson and Jackson, who had followed on bicycles. The animal was then driven back, apparently little the worse for its run.

Accident—Mr J Wooding of Duck-street, a player for Rushden Fosse F.C., met with a nasty accident on Sunday morning while cycling near Barton Seagrave. For 2½ hours he lay unconscious. He was removed to Rushden in the evening.

Serious Accident at Rushden – Fall Through a Sky-light
While engaged in painting at the C.W.S. factory, Rushden, on Wednesday morning, a young man named Harry Kirby met with a nasty accident. Kirby, who is employed by Mr C Chamberlain, painter, was on the roof of the factory, when he slipped and tumbled heavily through a sky-light falling a distance of about 12 feet. He was severely cut by the broken glass and sustained serious bruises, but happily no bones were broken. Mr Endersby, factory foreman, was quickly on the spot and he fetched an ambulance man from the factory. A stretcher was obtained, and the sufferer was removed to his home.