Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1883 — Saved by Clutching a Horse’s Tail. [ARTICLE]

Saved by Clutching a Horse’s Tail.

Salt Lake Tribune. Albert Dougherty, one of the driver between Green River and Big Sandy,who was caught in the storm on Wednesday evening and lay out in the ice and snow forty-eight hours,was brought in to-night by Dougherty was unable to mount the horse after abandoning the stage, and the way he succeeded in traveling was as follows: He took hold of the sagacious animal’s tail and let it drag him. When his hands became so benumbed that he could no longer retain his grasp, the animal would stop and come up to him and patiently wait until Dougherty would again entwine his hands in the tail, when the horse would resume the journey. 8,500 sewing machines were lost in the flood at Newport Columbus Junction claims to be the horse metropolis of east lowa.