Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-08
A BRAVE MAN.
BILLY A'aLuxY In NEW ROLE.

0AAAA A'0AOhX IN "A NE" hOAE.
How . Runaway Horse was stopped aud /.
Little Girls Life Saved-The Her0
Notorious Dance mouse Keeper.
N. Y. Times.
| While the boulevard from McComb's
Dam bridge road to the park was crowded
with all kinds of pleasure equipages about
O'Clock Tuesday evening, great excite
ment was produced in the vicinity of One
Hundred and Fortieth street by a frantic
cry of "Clear the track A runaway
Drive on the sidewalks ~ A man in a
light road wagon was driving his horse
toward the park on run and screaming
this warning to the drivers in the street.
Behind him, in the middle of the broad
thoroughfare, a powerful roam horse was
dashing madly down the street, drawing a
top buggy, which swayed from side to
side, while little girl of IS years c!ung
desperately to the lines, with white face
and streaming hair. Everybody gave the
runaway vehicle wide berth. Men in
light wagons whipped their holses franti-
cally upon the sidewalk, coachmen drove
their carriages hurriedly to the side of the
road, ladies and gentlemen ON horseback
galloped wildly to the fences, and although
sympathetic women in their carriages
screamed and men turned pale, no ono
made the slightest effort to assist the child
who, without looking to tho right OR lefc,
was screaming "Oh, won't somebody
save me Oh, somebody stop him What
shall do Oh, what shall do! ~
A quiet. looking man III q clerical frOck
coat, who was meditatively driving large
"buckskin horse before light road
wagon toward the city, heard the warning
cry of the man who was trying to clear
the road, and looked around just as the
roam horse, on frantic run, was passing
One Hundred and Twenty ninth street,
and all the vehicles were crOwding to tho
left hand side of tho road. The quiet
man, without a moments hesitation, put
his horse, which was fast one, to his
speed, and drove swiftly beside the runa.
way steed.
"Don't be afraid !" he called coolly to
the child, who cluug to tho lines like a
you! Hang on to the lines, and pull
most on the left, and when l tell you to
jump do it. Will you mind what say
EYES," answered the little girl "but
save me, oh save me, if you can ~
The quiet man gave the buckskin horse
q cut with his whip, and the animal broke
into gallop and brought the seat of his
masters wagon even with the runaway
horses head. Then the man quickly
wound his lines about his right hand aud
with the left seized tho runaway horse S
bride. The frantic beast plunged and
jerked his head away, almost dragging the
man from his seat, and dashed on, the
man losing his hat and whip. But he at
once drove alongside tho horses
head again, and again seizod tho
bride, which was again torn away from
him. He drove up again and made third
attempt, and met a like failure. "Don't
give up" he called to the child, who was
losing courage and crying "just hang on
to the lines" Then, in very vigorous
language, he exhOrted some OF the horse
men whom they were flying past to come
to his assistance, but no one responded.
The two animals in this time had run
down to One Hundred and Twenty eighth
street, and between Oae Hundred and
Twenty-fifth and One Hundred and Twen.
ty sixth streets lies aheap Of stone, mortar,
and bricks, where a building is in process
of construction and toward this jagged
pile the quiet man, who wa; still driving
beside and encouraging the girl, saw that
the runaway horse was headed. and knew
that he must make 4 final effort to stop
the animal at oncs. Ho drove up beside
the head of the beast again, seized the
bride, dropped his lines, and calling to
his own horse to stop. he sprang to the
ground, dragging tha runaway horses
head with him, and after a sharp struggle
brought the brute to stand still and took
the child, who was almost tainting, from
the buggy.
The little girl said that her father, who
had been driving with her, had been run
over at One Hundled and Thirty. sixth
street, and that tho hors3 had run from
| there, a distance of more than mile. The
quiet man drove back to look for the
father, and met him driving down in 4
| grocery wagon to look for his Child, whom
he expected to find dead or dying in the
road. He was not very badly hurt. He
is Mr.. Samuel Browning, Of No.
255 West Fifty Seventh street. He
| said that he stopped in the road
| to check up his horse and gave his
little girl the reins. Some other horses
| came up behind and startled the animal,
and it bolted. He clung to its head aud
was dragged block, when the beast got
away and the wheel of tho buggy went
over his own leg. The quiet man drove
them both home, but declined absolutely
to say who he was. His name is very welI
known in New York, however, for tho
little girls rescuer was none other than
the famous Billy" McGlory, who is y
fine horseman, and whose previous train
ing has been calculated to give him the
nerve and courage he displayed to TO good
effect.
Losses of Lilo and Property.
Mr.. George Redhair and his wife were
drowned while crossing swollen creek
near Breckenridge. Missouri, on Wednes-
day.-Lightning struck house occupied
by Hungarians near Ashland, Pa, on
Wednesday night. One man was paral
yzed, another had leg and an arm
broken, a woman was knocked senscles
and buried under falling timbers, and
third man was so badly frightened that he
became crazy and wandered through the
woods all night.-Dr. T. B. Shields one
of the best known physicians in Allegheny
county, while attempting to cross tho
Baltimore and Ohio track, at Coulters
Vile, was run over by train of cars and |
instantly killed, his body being terribly |
mangled. He was a brOther.in law to |
Hon. Morgan Wise.-The Hazard Powder |
cOmpany's magazine at Hutchinson, Kan.
sas, containing 300 pounds of powder,
was blown up by lightning on Wednesday.
Nearly all the glass in the city was
smashed by the shock. Several buildings
were wrenched from their foundations,
and plastering, lamps and clocks a mile
distant were knocked down. A dwelling,
SoO yards from the magazine, was ';com-
Pletely rlddled by flying bricks" No
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