Yesterday morning a Platte County farmer who was on his way home from the city with his family in a wagon met with a serious accident. He was driving along the reservation on the road leading to the bridge when suddenly turning a bend in the road he came upon a colored soldier who was standing in the middle of the road practicing the manual of arms with a gun. The farmer’s team becoming frightened and wheeling about upset the wagon throwing the occupants out, bruising all more or less and breaking a leg of one child. The horses then ran away breaking the wagon to splinters and coming to the city were stopped on Dakota street.
Date(s) of Creation
10/15/1886
Other Names and Numbers
Other Names
Name Type
Free Blacks
Other Name
Unidentified Soldier
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Source Citation
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Weekly Standard (Leavenworth, KS, 1880-1903): 10/15/1886, p. 1
