The Daily Dispatch: August 17, 1863., [Electronic resource]

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Serious accident.

--A severe accident occurred in this city on Saturday afternoon last, by which Dr. J. P. Little came near losing his life. The doctor had been attending some patients at the Young Men's Christian Association Hospital, on Clay street, between 5th and 6th, and had just entered his buggy when the horse attached thereto took fright and dashed off at full speed. Being unable to rein him up, the animal continued in his flight till reaching 6th street, between Clay and Leigh, when the vehicle came in contact with some obstruction, which threw Dr. L. out with great force against the curbstone opposite Mr. Wm. B. Isaacs's residence, and for a while he lay apparently lifeless. In a few minutes the doctor was lifted into the grass plat in front of Mr. Isaacs residence, where some ladies proceeded to bathe his head and administer other restoratives, by which means he was soon restored to consciousness. A physician who had been sent for having arrived, examined his wounds and found that his left leg was broken, one of his ears nearly torn from his head, and there was a severe contusion on the right side of his face, immediately above and below the eye, though, fortunately, no fracture of the skull. The doctor was then removed to his residence, where, we are glad to learn, he is getting along as comfortably as the nature of his wounds will permit. The vehicle was badly broken, but the horse escaped uninjured.