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Parade disaster hospitalizes three as horses stampede in Bellevue Illinois
Bellevue witnesses recount panic as carriage horses pulling a Maquoketa State Bank float bolted at an intersection. Three remain hospitalized including Teri Feyen of Dubuque with leg fractures while her infant son Maximus escaped uninjured. Adam Schmidt, age 6, suffers a broken leg and internal injuries but is expected to recover. Bellevue Mayor Virgil Murray notes numbness and healing ahead.
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Mark Geary
the Gazette
Teri Feyen
Dubuque
Mercy Hospital
Bellevue
Feyen
Jenny Steines
Walsh
Mardell Steines
Maquoketa State Bank
Mercy Hospi
Tal
Maximus
Brian Fegen
Dan Schmidt
Adam
Finley Hospital
Virgil Murray