Ronk - Lydia
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal Monday, 16 July 1894
New Ross, July 16—Miss Lydia Ronk, daughter of Joe Ronk, who lives a mile and a half south of here, started out for a drive yesterday morning. She was driving a colt and it became unmanageable and notwithstanding her efforts to stop it, it ran away. When in front of the house of Logan Ronk, a neighbor, it plunged through an open gate. The turn was made so suddenly that the buggy was overturned and the helpless girl was hurled against the gate post, her head striking first, crushing the skull just over the left eye. It was thought for a time she was dead but with hard work she soon showed signs of life and Dr. Bronaugh was dispatched out there. He pronounced the wound dangerous and probably fatal. The buggy was totally demolished and when the horse arrived home it had nothing on except a bridle. The girl is somewhat easier today and may recover. – thanks S
think she may have lived