at Hastings, when the horse suddenly started off and ran to the bottom of the road where was a wood fence close to the edge of the cliff. Against this the animal dashed, and having broken the top bar, leaped over so that his fore feet were right on the edge of the precipice, the height of which was fifty or sixty feet from the ground below. Fortunately, the fore-wheels of the carriage were checked by the lower bars of the fence; and thus, although Miss Ticehurst was thrown out, and slightly injured by the concussion, she marvellously escaped what might have been a terrible death.
A workman named Peters fractured a leg on the 13th of May, at Breeds’s brewery, whilst stacking sacks of malt, and accidentally capsizing a low moveable stage by treading on the outer edge instead of the centre.
Another Accident at East Cliff. An escape from death quite as miraculous as that of Miss Ticehurst, even if not more so, was experienced by a gentleman visitor named Cruckenden, on May 27th. On leaving the East Hill by the path near the edge of the cliff, at the Tackleway, he incautiously ran down the upper part of the ascent, but endeavoured to check himself at the public seat placed on the edge of the cliff just where the pathway turned at a sharp angle. His grasp of the post was not sufficiently firm, and he fell over the edge just beyond the seat, a depth of 60 feet on to the roof of some stabling. Those who witnessed the occurrence expected to find, as they said, the gentleman dead with every bone in his body broken. Strange to say, on being removed to the Dolphin public-house, Mr. Ticehurst, who was quickly in attendance, found that not a bone was broken, and the only wound was a laceration of the chin. Mr. Cruckenden, in his descent, struck the rock at about 24 feet, and probably this, combined with the circumstance that the roof on which he alighted was formed of zinc plates (which yielded to the blow and caused two of the rafters to snap), saved him from a crushing death. But even with that explanation, his escape was marvellous.
Another Narrow Escape. On the same date at night, William Mace the master of a Ramsgate fishing-smack off Hastings, met with an accident which nearly cost him his life. With the rest of the crew, he was engaged in “shooting” the trawl, when he became entangled in the apparatus, from which he was thrown overboard, breaking an arm in the fall. The crew were unable to assist him, and he was obliged to remain in the water till picked up by another boat. He was brought ashore and promptly attended by Mr. Ticehurst.
Accident to a Carpenter. On the 3rd of June, William Woodhams, of Halton, broke the bone of one of his legs by a simple fall, whilst, with a basket of tools on his back, he passed from the Albion hotel to the Marine parade.
Another accident at Sea. Some wonderment was evinced by folk -
