People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — FAIR OAKS. [ARTICLE]

FAIR OAKS.

Correspondence of the People’s Pilot. Last, Sunday morning as John Casey, agent for Halleck's nursery, was trying to cross the grade at Burke's

bridge with a horse and vehicle, By* horse became unmanageable. The horse went ever the grade into the water many feet below. After an hour’s toil and exposure Casey ascertained that his horse was about to perish, and springing into the water two feet deep he caught the horse by the halter and tramped the ice for one hundred yards and landed on the bridge almost chilled' to death. The exposure has brought on an attack of pneumonia and Mr. Casey is said to be in a critical condition.