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Stockwell, Nellie - injured

Source: Greencastle Star Press, 23 June 1894

On Monday last, at Indianapolis, Miss Nellie Stockwell of Cloverdale was badly injured. The Sentinel says: Miss Nellie Stockwell, living at 37 ½ W. Market St was run down by a carriage while riding a bicycle on N. Meridian St last night and was seriously, perhaps fatally injured. Just how the accident happened no one seemed to know as Miss Stockwell has been unconscious ever since it occurred. She was carried into the residence of Derk DeRuiter, 1036 N Meridian and Drs. Wilson, Howard, Harvey and Beard were called. The physicians discovered that the girls’ spine was injured and every time they attempted to make an investigation she went into convulsions. She was removed to her home in the city ambulance and at 2 o’clock this morning the physicians had been unable to make an examination of her injuries. Miss Stockwell is the daughter of LA Stockwell of the Noncomformist. The driver of the carriage whipped up his horses and escaped immediately after the accident and his name could not be learned. Wednesday morning’s Sentinel gives the following additional particulars: Miss Nellie Stockwell, who, while riding on her bicycle Monday evening was struck by a horse recklessly driven to a buggy by an unknown person was still in an unconscious condition last night and was removed from her home to St. Vincent’s infirmary. Her condition is considered critical.
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