Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1901 — Horse and Jockey Killed. [ARTICLE]

Horse and Jockey Killed.

At the Anna (Ill.) races Charles Hodges, a jockey from Vienna, riding the horse Mino. 9wned by Jack West of Poplar Bluff, Mo., was killed, together with the horse. The race was a half-mile dash, and the bunch of five horses were within a few feet of the wire when the horse suddenly fell, breaking its neck and throwing the rider headlong fully thirty feet. Hodges was found alive and carried to a house, where he died later. The cause of tne fall of the horse was heart failure.