Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1907 — A LIVELY RUNAWAY. [ARTICLE]

A LIVELY RUNAWAY.

While out in their slaughter bouse about a mile west of town Wednesday afternoon, Roth Bros.’ team ran away with only the five-year-old son of Sam Roth, Milton, Jr., in the wagon. The team ran into town and when near J. C. Porter’s residence collided with a telephone pole and the wagon was partly demolished. The boy had been jostled off the seat into the bed of the wagon with the cushion from the seat and the seat had out a slight gash in his head where it had struck him, and when the team collided with the telephone pole he was thrown out but was hugging the cushion and it too went out with him and was between him and the ground when he landed, so it broke the force of his fall and he was unhurt except for the cut on his head. It was a lucky runaway, as the team ran at a terrific speed, but fortunately kept the road, and the boy’s falling off the seat into the wagon bed saved him from more qerions injury.