Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1909 — PRIEST AND BROTHER IN A LIVELY RUNAWAY. [ARTICLE]

PRIEST AND BROTHER IN A LIVELY RUNAWAY.

Team Becomes Frightened pt Train arid Buggy Tongue Falls, Causing Accident Father Alphonse Miller and Brother Sylvester Hinen, of the Indian School, across the road from the college, had a lively runaway accident just after 2 o’clock today that resulted in a rather miraculous escape for them. Brother Sylvester had gone to the station to. get Father Miller, who was returning from Lowell, and as they were leaving the station the team which Sylvester was driving became frightened and the horses began to run. He doubtless would have been able to subdue the horses save for the fact that the buggy tongue fell and caught in the ground and the buggy was overturned and the occupants thrown out in front of Remley’s "restaurant. —One of the horses was caught but the other broke loose from the buggy and ran down town and through Washington street. Fortunately neither Father Miller nor Brother Sylvester were injured although they were thrown out with great violence. The buggy tongue was broken but the buggy was otherwise but little injured.