Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1905 — A Day of Runaways. [ARTICLE]

A Day of Runaways.

i There were two luuaways in this vicinity, Wednesday afternoon and one of them involved another turnont. The first took place in. U* n and was a young team hitched to a large wag'hi, and driven by Fred Waling, who lives nqar Pleasant Ridge. He was leaving town, on south Cullen street and at the corner of work st. met the Ross automobile, driven by his young sou, Livington. The horses took fright and started to jump wildly, soon breaking the tongue, so that the wagon skewed about iu every direction. Waling seeing that he had no control of the horses, and that he was in a very dangerous position, jumped out. The horses turned east on the stock farm road and when about iu front of Mrs. wm. Bussell’s property they piled up in the ditch. Besides the dam age to the wagon one of the horses was badly skinned up from gi ft ng astride of one of the tugs. Neither team nor auto could see each other until just as they met,- and no special blame seemed to attach to either for the runaway, but Mr. Ross Ipaid half of the cost of repairing the wagon. Tho other runaway was north of town. Some traveling fish peddlers were out with a Rensselaer livery team, and halted their fish cargo near Alf Donnelly’s place. One man went to one house and the other to another, leaving the team standing alone in the road. They started for town, and soon got to going some. About a mile towards town they ran into the rear of a single buggy driven by a Mrs. Meyers, of near Parr. The runaway horses fell down and went no further. Mrs. Meyers’ buggy had one wheel smashed and was otherwise broken, and she was considerably bruised. Still another ruuaway occnred Sunday and involved Rensselaer, people. It was the team of Eli Gerber, vi ho lives on Dayton street. Tbe runaway oocured out neai John Martindale’s place in Newtoi Tp., and caused by the horses be ginning to kick, from annoyance by llies. The buggy was tipped over and Mr. Gerber quite painfully bruised over the breast bone out not seriously injured.