Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1905 — A VERY DANGEROUS RUNAWAY. [ARTICLE]

A VERY DANGEROUS RUNAWAY.

A very exciting and very dangerous runaway, involving a well known family oUßensselaer, occuredlate Thursday afternoon. The family was Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Grant and their three children, of Main and Vine streets. They were driving back to town, on the first north and south road, east of the river bridge, on the Pleasant Ridge road. While still quite a long distance south of the corner east of the Langhoff place, the horse being much annoyed by flies, by a sudden switch of her tail caught the lines under’it, and also jerked them from Mr. Grant’s hands. He arose and bent over to secure the lines, but a sudden plunge of the horse . threw him out and the buggy ( wheels passed over him. The mare plunged ahead, at full speed. One child, sitting in the front ( seat with Mr. Grant was thrown or jumped out. Mrs. Grant with two children were left in the back seat. After the horse had run some distance, Mrs. Grant jumped out with oue child, leaving the nine year old daughter, Gladys, still in the seat, bht whom she expected would jump out also. Mr. Grant was severely bruised by his fall from the buggy aud the wheels running over him, while Mrs. Grant was rendered temporarily unconscious by the shock when she stfuek the ground. When she came to, the horse and buggy and little girl Gladys were out of sight. But about a quarter of a mile further on they found the little girl lying in the road, unconscious. It was feared she was badly hurt, but though very sick all night, she is no w so fully recovered that no lasting serious results are apprehended. The other two children were not hurt, more than somewhat bruised and shaken. The horse ran clear to town before she was caught. The buggy was broken some, but not very extensively.