Hyatt - George W. - child
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Thursday, 6 November 1873
On Tuesday of last week, a little boy aged about five years, living in the family of Geo W. Hyatt, in Shawnee Township, was so severely kicked by a horse that he died on the following Thursday. He was in the barn lot, playing with a little girl, considerably younger than himself—just able to talk—and the first the folks about the house knew of the terrible accident, the little girl reported that her playmate was all bloody. Examination was made and the injured child found lying in the barn lot, and one of the horses licking the wound—a frightful gash two or three inches long, on the head. Dr. Cole was called and found the skull fractured, a piece of the bone being entirely kicked away. The little fellow had a string on a stick for a whip, and it is thought that he was trying to drive the horses when hurt.—Attica Ledger