Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-20
A PUCKY wOMAN's FEAT.
After Two BRrIy towards Jumped
Special 10 the New York World

After Two BRrIy towards Jumped
she stOps = Runaway Team
Special 10 the New York World
On the stage route between FL
lenvillc and Summitville, New
York, is a leng steep hill, known
as Budd's Hill. Yesterday as the
stage, containing Mrs. Jane Hol-
lingsworth and two small children,
William Bran and James Low, the
driver, had just began the descent
of the hill, the pole slipped through
the neck-yoke, and the stage ran
heavily against the horses heels.
They at once started at a furious
rate down hill. The driver dropped
the reinS and jumped from the stage
to the roadside. Bran who occu-
pied the seat with Low, sprang out
at the same time. Mrs. Hollings-
worth and her two children occu-
pied the rear seat in the stage, and
there was no possible way for her
to escape from it, if she had thought
it wise to do so. Seeing herself and
children left to theirfate blythe men,
she determined to make a desperate
effort to save their lives, if possible;
although, with the team plunging
madly down the steep declivity,
without restraint or guidance of a
driver, and the coach swaying from
side to side, threatening momenta-
rily to be capsized down the high
bank on the lawn side, sthe chances
for escape from death seemed slim
inleed. Mrs. Hollingsworth clam.
bered over the three high backed
seats between her and the drivers.
box, first quoting her children,
who were screaming in terror, with
the assurance that she would save
them. Reaching the drivers seat
she was compelled to climb over the
dashboard to the tongue of the
coach, between the two frantic
horses, to gain possession of the
reinS, which had apparently been
flung over the horses backs by the
cowardly and terror-stricken driver.
Mr.. II. Tallman, of this place, who
was driving up the hill, saw the
stage team dashing over towards
him, just as Mrs. Hollingsworth
had secured the lines and was climb
ing back to the drivers seat. Tall
man says she was as pale as death,
but elutched the lines firmly, as the
stage dashed by his wagon. lie
says he expected to see the coach
hurled over the bank at the turn of
the road below, but the courageous
woman by most miraculous strength
in pulling the horses
close along the base of the hill on
the upper side and rounded the
curve in safety. Tallman and others
who had witness the thrilling scene
hurried after the flying stage. They
in sight of it, and saw the
pulled skillfully against the
hill by Mrs. HOllingsworth, until
the fury Of their career was broken,
and then were adroitly turned off.
at a level place in the road and
brought up against a fence, where,
after several Intellectual plunges to-
free themselves from the obstacle.
they came to a standstill. When
the men came up the brave woman
was still holding the lines, but was
unconscious. Where the lines had
been wrapped about her hands they
had almost buried themselves be-
meath the flesh, and blood streamed
from the ugly gashes they made
The children were still crouching
in terror in one corner ofthe coach,
in each others arms. There
was not a scratch on the horses, not
a break in the harness, nor the
slightest injury done to the coach.
Mrs, Hollingsworth was at once
taken to the nearest house and
given the best Of care. She soon
recovered, and in an hour or so had
the strength and nerve to proceed
on her journey in the same coach
and behind the same horses with
which she had had SO terrible an
experience. She says she never ex-
pected to see her children again
when she left them to attempt the
control of the team. Her bravery
and proves made her a heroine,
and the crowd that had been drawn.
to the scene gave her three hearty
cheers when the stage finally drove
on with her and her children. Mrs.
Hollingsworth is about thirty years
old, and Of a slight frame. uow
Low, the driver, and Bran, the
passenger, we're both badly hurt by
their cowardly jumps, but their in
juries did not save them the seorn
and Indignation Of the populaee. 8
PraHkIIn on q STEAMBOAT.