Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1904 — A Very Dangerous Ronaway. [ARTICLE]

A Very Dangerous Ronaway.

There was an exciting run-away in town last Friday morning and one wbioh pnt two persons in very great dancer, bat which, luckily, terminated without serious injnry to either. The run-away was a team hitched to a mowing machine less the cutter bar, which Frank Lakin, of near Parr, was bringing to town to have repaired. The team started to run at the railroad, probably getting frightened at the noise as the maohine bumped over the railroad tracks. The horses ran in a leisurely but determined manner clear down town, and paying little if any attention to unole Frank’s persistend tagging at their lines. When they passed Kresler’s feed barn, on Onllen street, they got up a sudden burst of speed. Just then Mrs. Jay Lamson of southwest of town, drove out of tHe Hemphill feed barn in a top buggy aud starting south the same direction the team, close behind her was running. She swung her horse towards the east side of the street, to avoid the runaway, and Mr. Lakin tried also to turn his horses, to prevent a collision, but they could not be guided, and one of the mower wheels’ oaught the hind wheel of Mrs. Lamson’s buggy. The buggy was turned clear over, top down and wheels up and her horse also was thrown down. Mrs. Lamson was shut fast in her buggy, and had her horse got on its feet and started to run, she would have been in a very bad plight. August Rosenbaum, who was dose by, seizsd and held her horse however, while the always gallant Unole Bill N. went to Mrs. Lamson’s assistance. It was at first thought she was badly hurt, but as it proved she had only a small cut above one eye, and a slight bruise on one arm. Unole Frank’s bronohoes were brought up short by the collision, and his oaßt iron jogging oart so nearly upset that he was thrown off the seat, and got quite a jolt as he hit the ground, but got up as good as ever. The tongue of his vehiole wa» also broken, and one of the main wheels was oraoked. The damages to Mrs. Lamson’s rig were not extensive either, both axels were bent, on the side next to the runaway, and a broken spoke, pretty nearly represented the extent of the damage.