The New Hampshire Gazette

Melancholy Event—On Saturday last, Mr. Joseph Walker, the driver of the Mail Stage from this town, through Plymouth and Rumney, to Haverhill, was killed almost instantly within a few miles of Mr. Morse's in Rumney, by the wheels of the carriage passing over his body. We understand, that he had a heavy load, of 15 or 16 passengers and baggage, and was driving a team of 6 horses. He dismounted from his seat, for the purpose of disciplining some of his horses, and, either in the act of dismounting, or immediately after, got entangled in some part of the harness by the hind horses, was thrown to the ground, and both wheels of one side of the carriage passed over his body, before he could be extricated from his fatal situation. He died about an hour afterwards. Walker was a young man, about 28 or 30 years of age, and has a widowed mother living in this town.—Concord States.