New-York tribune., 1894-04-29
STRUCK DEADBY THE SHAFT
ONE MAN KILLED AND THREE PEOPLE
SERIOUSLY HURT BY RUNAWAYS.

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DOWN TWO PERSONS IN HARLEM-rwo
OTHERS RUN OVER BY REcK-
LESS DRIVER WHO ESCAPES.
There was an exciting runaway in Harlem
about all hour before noon yesterday. when a
man was killed and a little girl was hurt
! seriously In Third-ave. near Ninety-thrd-st
! The horse that away was owned and driven
by julius Pitcher. proprietor IF the delicatesseh
store at No 2l9 East Thrty-eighth-st. Pitcher
was driving uptown in mis- delivery wagon, ana
was passing Jacob Rupperts brewery when the
horse took fright at something and became un-
manageable. Persons on the sidewalks heard a
shout, and saw the horse dashing up the avenue
at full speed with Pitcher clinging to the reins
In his anxiety to keep the horse from running
against one OF the columns OF the elevated rail-
road Pitcher refined the animal too far the other
way and the horse on the sidewalk be-
fore some of the persons there had time to
think Of their danger. There was a wild scramble
to get out of the way OF the horse, which raced
along the sidewalk from Ninety-second-st. to
Ninety-third-st. Emily Tauz. eight years old,
who lived at No. 1866 Third-ave.. was one OF the
persons who tried TO escape but she was struck
by a wheel Of the wagon. and knocked down
with so much violence that she lay stunned
and apparently lifeless for time.
DEATH CAME INSTANTLY.
Near N!nety-third-st an unknown man was
walking along the sidewalk with his back turned
to the runaway horse. He heard the shouts too
late. and was turning about 10 what was
the cause OF the commotion when the horse
dashed fun against him. He knocked fiat
on the sidewalk, one shaft of the wagon striking
him squarely in the face. He did not move from
the place where he fell and several men who ran
to the spot saw that he had been killed in
stantly.
At Nlnety-thrd-st. the horse swerved from the
sidewalk and just escaped dashing against the
elevated road. Half block further on it ran
against a sand wagon. TIE delivery wagon was
wrecked by the collision and Pitcher was flung
10 the pavement but he escaped serious injury
Freeing Itself from the wreck. the runaway horse
ran through Ninety-fourth-st. to Flfth-ave. ana
continued 10 Sixteth-st.. where II was capt
ured in exhausted condition.
40 MEANS OF IDENTIFTcATIoN.
Little Emily Tauz was carried to her home
She was. suffering from severe injuries to her
head left hip and abdomen. The body Of the
dead man was carried to the police station in
East Eighty-elghth-st. The police thought the
man a laborer. Apparently he was about
forty-hve years old. and he slightly above
the medium height He had light hair and
light mustache and he wor- A shabby gray suit
Nothing was found in HIS Iockets by which MS
body could be Identified The police arrested
Pitcher and locked him up.
TWO MORE PEOPLE HURT.
4 large gray horse. attached to butchers
wagon and driven at a reckless rate Of speed,
ran over two persons at Canal and Mulberry
SITS yesterday morning and injured them
severely The persons injured were Nathan
Eigcnfeldt twenty-one years old, Of No. Ill
Eldrtdge-st and Yetta Friedman twenty-one
years old OF No rs Essex-s.. The young woman
was removed to Chambers Street Hospital while
Elgenfeldt vas taken home In carriage. Egen-
feldt IS employed foreman by Burt Il COM
panv at No % Cenue-st. He said the injured
girl worked in the same building. lie met her
H. Cana-st while on his way 20 work
THE GUILTY DRIVER RUNS AWAY.
There was not policeman about at the time
Of the accident and although a crowd chased the
butcher cart a short distance. the driver man.
aged to make his escape. He never stopped Tor
a moment to find out the -esut Of his reckless
driving. Detectives learned that the wagon be-
longcl 20 Antonio Paopera Of No. l2' Mulperry-
G. He said that the man who drove the wagon
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