CRAZED HORSE FATALLY HURTS TWO BROTHERS
Abel Numbers, 77 and James 80, Felled by Failing Hoofs of Fly Pestered Animal.
Farmers, Near Clayton, Are Found Battered in Barn After Apparently Attempting to Minister to Beast.
(special to the Morning News)
CLAYTON. July 15 --- A horse apparently crazed by flies this afternoon kicked to death her owner, Abel Numbers, 77, and seriously trampled his brother, James 80, that he died several hours later in the Kent General Hospital, Dover. There were no witnesses to the double tragedy which occurred in the barn on the farm of Abel Numbers,
The victims, torn and cut by the vicious hoof thrust, were found in the empty stall by W. S. Wright, a neighbor who had gone to the barn to talk over threshing prospects. They had fled to a far corner of the barn.
Finding Abel beyond help, Wright called Dr. Richard Comegys to administer first aid to James. The Smyrna American Legion ambulance took him to the hospital where he died a short time later of a fracture of the skull.
James and Abel, both well known farmers in this section, had spent the early part of the afternoon in Clayton. Returning to the farm at is believed they went to the barn to grease the legs of the horse, made irritable by attacks of flies.
The horse, a three-year-old had not given any serious trouble previously although the heat and flies had combined to make it hard to handle the past several weeks. Several times the brothers had applied a preperation to the legs.
James, who was unmarried, made his home with his brother. Abel is survived by his wife, Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Numbers, and two children Mrs, Carl Hurd, of near Clayton, and C. Ross Numbers, who conducts a general merchandise store at Blackiston's Cross Roads, near here.
Coroner Harry Camper of Kent County took charge of the case.
Double funeral services for the brothers will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 pm standard time from their late home. The Rev. Van Cleaf, pastor of the M. P. Church at Clayton will officiate. Interment will be made in Odd Fellows Cemetery near Clayton.
Abel Numbers, 77 and James 80, Felled by Failing Hoofs of Fly Pestered Animal.
Farmers, Near Clayton, Are Found Battered in Barn After Apparently Attempting to Minister to Beast.
(special to the Morning News)
CLAYTON. July 15 --- A horse apparently crazed by flies this afternoon kicked to death her owner, Abel Numbers, 77, and seriously trampled his brother, James 80, that he died several hours later in the Kent General Hospital, Dover. There were no witnesses to the double tragedy which occurred in the barn on the farm of Abel Numbers,
The victims, torn and cut by the vicious hoof thrust, were found in the empty stall by W. S. Wright, a neighbor who had gone to the barn to talk over threshing prospects. They had fled to a far corner of the barn.
Finding Abel beyond help, Wright called Dr. Richard Comegys to administer first aid to James. The Smyrna American Legion ambulance took him to the hospital where he died a short time later of a fracture of the skull.
James and Abel, both well known farmers in this section, had spent the early part of the afternoon in Clayton. Returning to the farm at is believed they went to the barn to grease the legs of the horse, made irritable by attacks of flies.
The horse, a three-year-old had not given any serious trouble previously although the heat and flies had combined to make it hard to handle the past several weeks. Several times the brothers had applied a preperation to the legs.
James, who was unmarried, made his home with his brother. Abel is survived by his wife, Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Numbers, and two children Mrs, Carl Hurd, of near Clayton, and C. Ross Numbers, who conducts a general merchandise store at Blackiston's Cross Roads, near here.
Coroner Harry Camper of Kent County took charge of the case.
Double funeral services for the brothers will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 pm standard time from their late home. The Rev. Van Cleaf, pastor of the M. P. Church at Clayton will officiate. Interment will be made in Odd Fellows Cemetery near Clayton.
CRAZED HORSE FATALLY HURTS TWO BROTHERS
Abel Numbers, 77 and James 80, Felled by Failing Hoofs of Fly Pestered Animal.
Farmers, Near Clayton, Are Found Battered in Barn After Apparently Attempting to Minister to Beast.
(special to the Morning News)
CLAYTON. July 15 --- A horse apparently crazed by flies this afternoon kicked to death her owner, Abel Numbers, 77, and seriously trampled his brother, James 80, that he died several hours later in the Kent General Hospital, Dover. There were no witnesses to the double tragedy which occurred in the barn on the farm of Abel Numbers,
The victims, torn and cut by the vicious hoof thrust, were found in the empty stall by W. S. Wright, a neighbor who had gone to the barn to talk over threshing prospects. They had fled to a far corner of the barn.
Finding Abel beyond help, Wright called Dr. Richard Comegys to administer first aid to James. The Smyrna American Legion ambulance took him to the hospital where he died a short time later of a fracture of the skull.
James and Abel, both well known farmers in this section, had spent the early part of the afternoon in Clayton. Returning to the farm at is believed they went to the barn to grease the legs of the horse, made irritable by attacks of flies.
The horse, a three-year-old had not given any serious trouble previously although the heat and flies had combined to make it hard to handle the past several weeks. Several times the brothers had applied a preperation to the legs.
James, who was unmarried, made his home with his brother. Abel is survived by his wife, Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Numbers, and two children Mrs, Carl Hurd, of near Clayton, and C. Ross Numbers, who conducts a general merchandise store at Blackiston's Cross Roads, near here.
Coroner Harry Camper of Kent County took charge of the case.
Double funeral services for the brothers will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 pm standard time from their late home. The Rev. Van Cleaf, pastor of the M. P. Church at Clayton will officiate. Interment will be made in Odd Fellows Cemetery near Clayton.
Abel Numbers, 77 and James 80, Felled by Failing Hoofs of Fly Pestered Animal.
Farmers, Near Clayton, Are Found Battered in Barn After Apparently Attempting to Minister to Beast.
(special to the Morning News)
CLAYTON. July 15 --- A horse apparently crazed by flies this afternoon kicked to death her owner, Abel Numbers, 77, and seriously trampled his brother, James 80, that he died several hours later in the Kent General Hospital, Dover. There were no witnesses to the double tragedy which occurred in the barn on the farm of Abel Numbers,
The victims, torn and cut by the vicious hoof thrust, were found in the empty stall by W. S. Wright, a neighbor who had gone to the barn to talk over threshing prospects. They had fled to a far corner of the barn.
Finding Abel beyond help, Wright called Dr. Richard Comegys to administer first aid to James. The Smyrna American Legion ambulance took him to the hospital where he died a short time later of a fracture of the skull.
James and Abel, both well known farmers in this section, had spent the early part of the afternoon in Clayton. Returning to the farm at is believed they went to the barn to grease the legs of the horse, made irritable by attacks of flies.
The horse, a three-year-old had not given any serious trouble previously although the heat and flies had combined to make it hard to handle the past several weeks. Several times the brothers had applied a preperation to the legs.
James, who was unmarried, made his home with his brother. Abel is survived by his wife, Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Numbers, and two children Mrs, Carl Hurd, of near Clayton, and C. Ross Numbers, who conducts a general merchandise store at Blackiston's Cross Roads, near here.
Coroner Harry Camper of Kent County took charge of the case.
Double funeral services for the brothers will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 pm standard time from their late home. The Rev. Van Cleaf, pastor of the M. P. Church at Clayton will officiate. Interment will be made in Odd Fellows Cemetery near Clayton.
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