Somerset County Gazette 30 Mar 1867 Page 2
FIVEHEAD.
ACCIDENT. - On Monday evening Mr. HOLMES, draper and grocer, of Bridgwater, called at Mr. STUCKEY's shop to take orders, leaving his horse and four-wheel at the door, when the horse moved on unperceived. Taking the road to Isle Brewers, about a mile from Fivehead, it came to the river, then much swollen from the fall of rain, and where there is a turn to the left, and then to the right, to reach the bridge, instead of which the horse when straight on, into the river, and was drowned. A strange incident occurred in connection with this event. A miller and a farmer were behind the trap, and called to the person they thought was driving to turn to the left, or he would go into the river; and notwithstanding they saw the cart in and the horse struggle and sink, they went on to their homes and got to bed. As they had been seen to pass that way, some one went and asked if they had seen a horse and gig, when they answered “Yes, but we thought 'twas old Joshe WEBB and his donkey and cart, as he went on in the morning, and we though 'twas he going home, when we seed 'em drowned.”