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A YOUNG LADY's FEARFUL RIDE.
A Pair of Horses Break Away with
Four Ladies' i'm a Carriage...M Miss
Lille White SerIOuly Hurt.
Greenville Ne,0s, august 26

Greenvttte NetDs, August 70.
A runaway fraught with serious conse'
fortunately none of them reached full deyei.
opment, and the results were slight in bodily
harm compared with what might have been
aud was reported to be. The vehicle was q
pair Of horses driven by Charles B. Kirkland,
Of Spartanburg. Three ladies were with him
in the carriage-Mrs. Murrell, Of Florida,
Miss Lille White, and MI Miss Lula White II.
change Hotel. The party were out for an
afternoons drive and had visited several
points OF interest on the East side and crossed
the river for drive in West End. Passing
they had reached the mouth OF the cut a few
yards beyond, when the incoming train came
out Of the cut at rapid speed, just beginning
The horses were taken by surprise on the
sudden and neXpected approach Of the
train meeting them, and began 10 prance and
pull to one side and give other signs of unea-
siness.. MI. Kirkland first refined them to
ward the fence on his left and brought them
to stop with their heads partly turned from
the train then they began backing. Unable
to check the back movement, and seeing
the danger OF the carriage overturning as It
became locked, with the rear part Of 1t oil.
ready careening over Mr.. Kirkland jumped to
the ground, and shortening the lines In his
horses heads, calling to the ladies in the
out in an instant, Miss Lille White, occupy
ing the rear scat being yet in her place when
the horses lunged forward and dashed away
MIR. kirkland holding the lines with o firm
grasp, was jerked over the right front wheel
but fell far enough to the right OF 1t TO escape
being run over. The horses now ran With a
alone was in the buggy, the reins under the
horses feet and with nothing to hope for but
lucky stop or o lucky fall. Many q heart
sank within its breast as the crowd at the
yUi
threatened the young lady's life, and the fact
that nothing could be done to rescue her was
agonizing.
The horses went at full speed and the car.
riage was soon out of sight over the hill near
the residence Of Colonel Hammett. Parties
at the depot In buggies drove rapidly in pur.
suit and came upon the wreck Immediately
in front of John D. Sullivan's residence on
the starting point of the runaway. The hor-
ses had kept the road to this point and there
they turned to the left. crossing the sidewalk
on passing VOLTS store on the lift and veering
walk for perhaps a hundred feet, when the
right front wheel of the vehicle struck an
electric light pole with frightful crash. The
The Vehicle Gle lost all snaps, @ and Miss White lay
on the ground at the bottom Of the red clay
gully; The buggy, few feet further on, was
noW detacGed by By the sRas6 s6RR1 up' were suPgns
In an entanglement Of harness, and persons
in the neighborhood were making hurrfedly
to the young lady's relief. Mr. Wolfe was the
first to reach her. At first she did not speak,
but when raised up and asked II she was hurt
replied mo not much, but iplease don't let
mother know anything about It,; she Is very
ILL.," Miss White was helped to her feet and
could probably have walked unaided, but was
assisted by others in walking into the resi-
dence of Mr.. Sullivan, whose family received
her and cared for her at once. DR.. Furman
was summoned and was soon with the
wounded young lady. An examination prov
ed that quite serious cash had been cut on
the left glide Of the back Of the head from
which there was some flow Of blood, the left
shoulder was badly bruised, the left yeslight-
ly hurt and partly filled with sand while there
were other minor bruizes about the face and
body. Miss White remained at Mr. Suiltvan's g
for several hours under treatment and care OF
DR.. Furman and relatives and friends who
had come upon hearing OF the accident, and
returned to the hotel with her father in a
com Portable conveyance late In the aftern oon.
DR.. Furman found that her injuries, while
painful, were not serious. There was no frac-
lures and no conclusions and Captain White
and family were cheerful in the hope that
no permanent injury was inflicted by the
fall.
Miss White was the only one hurt by the
runaway as the others in the vehicle were out
In good time at the start. The horses stopped
within hundred feet ::of the smash-up, and
were found to have received no wounds. The
wrecked surry, bright and handsome We
hicle that had been, was hauled In on wa
gon and put away. 1t tells the tale Of fear
full trip.