Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-10-07
a HONDERFUL ESCAPE
How . Young Lady's Presence of Mind Saved
Her From q Violent Death,

How Young Lady's Presence of Mind Saved
Her From q Violent Death.
George 8. Scott the New York capitalist,
some of the most popular men In Wall street
Everybody knows him; every body likes
him. Yesterday, though, his hand was
shaken with even unusual earnestness nv
friend after friend who called at his office
And there was good cause, too, for the con-
graulations that were showered upon him.
Mr.. Scott has country home down; ri
Seabright, and one of the attractions of tina,
home are two pretty daughters. Miss Lulu
Scott, who is eighteen years old, is q most
accomplished and daring equestrienne. On
Saturday, accompanied by two gentlemen
iriendsszu6s1 Mounted one of her favorite
- thoroughbred cross-counIry hunter
ssss6 set out Iol a pleasant ride down the
Oceanic road. The little party were going
along pleasantly when suddenly Just around
bend in the road appeared two Jersey bug.
gies, each with a man and whip in great
activity. Jersey was having a race. Down
the road at the rnaddest sort Of a pace came
the wagons peli nell. A collision seemed
inevitable for Miss Scott and her friends on
horseback, so reck lessly came the plunglng
buggies.
The young lady turned her Lexington
colts head to the side, but the man in the
buggy on her side of the road, suddenly dis
covering what was ahead, lost all his pres
sence OF mind and wheeled with a rush TO
the left, aiming fairly at the imperilled young
woman. Too late he gave another wrench
at his reins and brought his excited animal
sharply to tne right, but there was no ascaps
now, and Miss Luiu's friends sat transtixed
on their steeds too far distant to be of any
service, and waited through moments that
seemed hours for the sequel OF the reck less
racing Down suddenly croucbed the intel
Igent hunter at word OF command from
the brave girl on his back-crOuched to make
desperate leap to carry, il he might, mis-
burden over the danger that threatened to
safety. While they waited breathlessly
Miss Lulu's friends had no doubt of what
the result would be to the rider, ii but the
Lexington's powers were sufficient TO en-
able him to clear the obstacle before him for
ladies' who eau compare with Lulu Scott ON
horseback. She rides across country, reck-
less OF bitches, careless of fences, regardless
OF hedges, daring everything rider az
brave as she Is graceful.
but just then the buggy horse turned with
leaP~further aside even as Miss Scott's
hunter sprang upward and forward. There
was sad collision. The buggy horse was
hit fairly on the head by the hunter and fell
instantly dead; his neck broken. Miss
Scotrs horse, impeded by this collision,
strained too much, his back broke, a blood
vessel at his heart broke-he, too, sank dead
on the moment
And Miss Scott3 Through the air she was
shot headlong squarely at the front OF the
stlil moving buggy. She fell upon the dash
board II smashed into bits beneath the
weight OF her body. Then she fell below on
the whiflletree of the wagon and at tn ferr OF
the horse lying there prone and dead. hsd
mat animal been but manned, the end would
nave been her death sure as il was not "A
scratch, not a bruise did she suffer. There
seemed q miracle in II.