Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1909 — WOMEN HAVE MIRACULOUS ESCAPE IN ACCIDENT. [ARTICLE]

WOMEN HAVE MIRACULOUS ESCAPE IN ACCIDENT.

by the noise of an aato and the hammering of the carpenters on the Horton-Roth Bros, building, a big blind horse driven by Mrs. John Rush of west of town, ran away Wednesday evening and struck a telephone pole in front of Ben O’Connor’s residence, breaking its right fore leg at the shoulder. s f'Mrs. Rush was accompanied by Miss Martha Yeoman and both remained in the buggy un|til the horse fell, when they alighted without injury. The shafts were snapped off and it was only by a miracle that the two women escaped unhurt. The horse was taken to the Rush farm in the hope of the broken leg healing.