Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1901 — Lively While it Lasted. [ARTICLE]

Lively While it Lasted.

Frank King, the new express route owner and driver, hitched the sorrel team of his partner, Charley Murray, to the wagon Sunday, and drove out to the 10:55 train. The team became frightened when the train pulled in and started to run. They were caught by Charley Danford, the blacksmith, before they had run half a block, but they turned the wagon over, broke the tongue and riddled the harness. Had they kept up the same rate of destruction another half block, it would have reduced the wagon to kindling wood and scrap iron; and still another block would have left nothing of the horses except a few piles of bones and two tattered horse-hides. Frank will confine himself to a one-horse express wagon after this, and if that also proves too dangerous will get a push cart.