The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-06-06
Remarkable Escape of a Man,
Woman and Child.
DASH DOWN A MOUNTAIN
One of the Most Exciting Incidents Ever
Witnessed ON the Cemetery Road-Three
Lives Saved AS If by Miracle-A Bad
Tempered Broncho.

One of the most thrilling runaway acct
dents which have occurred in this vicinity
in some time took place on the steep
mountain north of town yesterday after.
noon The occupants of the carriage to
which the horse was attached were a
Polish man, residing at Brownsville, and
his wife and infant child.
The carriage was on its way down the
hill from one of the cemeteries. At the
turn in the road at the top of the noun.
tain the horse, a bronCho, took the bit IN
its teeth and dashed down the steep and
narrow roadway. People at the top of
the hill who saw the dash turned their
faces to the opposite direction. They felt
that the occupants must surely be thrown
over the steep embankment south of the
road, or be carried down with the horse
and carriage.
A number of carriages were farther
down the road returning from a funeral
Alarmed by the shouts of the man hold
ing the reins of the runaway horse, the
drivers on the other vehicles turned their
teams against the embankment on the
north side of the road. This left a space,
very narrow one, for the runaway tC
pass between the halted carriages and
edge of the steep embankment to the
right.
Death seemed to be the inevitable fate
of the occupants of the carriage, which
was descending the mountain with light
ening rapidity, but just as it reached the
first carriage turned to the side of the
road, the horse wheeled to the north side
and the two carriages collided and locked.
At the same time the man, woman and
child were hurled out upon the road. The
carriage which had been run into was
somewhat damaged, but the occupants
retained THAR Gaota = and agaupaI i,,f,
When the collision occurred the broncho
broke away from the harness and madly
plunged up the steep embankment at the
north side of the road. The embankment
is about twenty feet high and almost per-
pendicular. How the horse managed to
scramble up the side was surprise to
everybody, but he succeeded and disap;
peared in the laurel bushes.
The Polish man and his wife scram bled
to their feet and when the astonished
spectators arrived upon the scene the
latter had seated herself on a rock on top
of the north embankment and had the
baby in her arms She held on to the
child during the fight from the carriage
and both escaped serious injury but one
of the woman's fingers was broken. The
husband was uniniured
The woman was as white as a sheet and
trembled like an aspen leaf. All she
could say was, Dat horse him all the
time ID" The husband stood in the
road, gazing mournfully at the damaged
wheels and voiced the sentiment of his
wife with "Yas, dat horse him a heller
feller" In spite of the seriousness of the
occasion many of the spectators were
forced to smile at the exclamations of the
unfortunate couple.
A few minutes later the horse was seen
dashing down the mountain side. along a
dangerous path passing the "Hookey'
dam, 1t continued at a terrific pace down
the path to the road leading to Main
street, down that street to Line and then
made other turns until he got to Coal
The owner and his sympathizers watched
the horse from their elevated position or
the mountain. When the horse got to the
west end of Coal street it turned to the
left and ran along the electric road
When it passed out of sight the owner re-
marked "Yes, him a d-l; him no stoE
till him get to stable" and the horst
carried out the expectations,