The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-16
Runaway Mustang Gets
Wedged Between Penn
sy1vania's Tracks.
LIFTED OUT WITH A DERRICK
Large Crowds ON the Street Watch
the Novel Spectacle--The
Animal Goes to the
Hospital.

"a ltiShy YOUNG mustang Ol all luQuit Lbs
frame Of mind got on to the Pennsylvania
trestlework last night, blocked traffic for
O. while and treated a large crowd of in
tercsted spectators to a most novel exhi-
bition. The trestle from the embankment
at Brunswick street to the lower embank-
ment at Henderson street is foored over
with heavy planking. For some time
worsmen have been employed relaying
this plenking, and when they quit last
evening they left an open space between
the rails of No. 4. the west-bound track,
just west of the Newark avenue crossing.
1t was about half-past eight last even
ing when the signal man in the tower
at Henderson street heard an unusual
sound rapidly coming down the trestle.
1t sounded like the clatter of the hoofs of
a rapidly moving horse, and be-
fore he could form many theor-
les how it was possible for an
he made out in the mist the form of a
horse running swiftly down the vest
bound track. At the same time he saw
coming in the opposite direction on the
same track a west-bound train. The sig
nal man was wondering how he could
turn the horse from the track and avoid
a collision, when the horse reached the
space left exposed by the workmen and
fell through. Instantly the man in the
tower exposed the danger signal, and
brought the train to q standstill not fifty
feet from the imprisoned animal: me
train was held for about fifteen minutes
and then switched to Nc. 3 track and
went on it's way. Ks soen as the horse
found himself fast he began to plunge
and kick. The racket he made, together
with the presence of the large number of
rackn1e who came Fastening to the
scene from all directions, each carrying a
lantern, attracted q large crowd on the
ftro ho1narN GA0r tho fhfNn0 cpnrxv tn
such proportions hat it was with the
greatest difficulty that the Grove street
ears and the Erie and Court House troll
lies could get along. A squad of police,
hurried to the scene, and soon kept the
t~horoughfare open.
The frantic efforts of the horse to free
himself only served to wedge him tigher
between the ties, and the matter of ex-
tracing him became a problem. The big
steam derrick which can raise a
car as easily as a child can
q toy locomotive, was sent to the
scene. The Workmen rugged g sling under
the horse, and in a few moments he was
himself free from the trestle the mustang
began to plunge and kick. and working
himself loose from the sling fell again to
the ties. Before he could move a man sat
upon his head. Another sling was rugged
under him, and in a few minutes he was
once more dangling in the air at the end
OF the great Chilli. I1cw WAS iHGl SWuilS
completely around in a semi-circle to the
rear of the platform on which the derrick
rested and slowly the ponderous ma
chine began to move away As it started
the crowd down on the street below sent
up a shout, and started after it down
Railroad avenue. For a moment the mus
tang was too astonished to move, but soon
realizing the undigniied position in Which
he found himself struggled heroically to
free himself. But this time the sling held,
and the horse was carried on down the
track dangling at the end of the chain.
AS the derrick moved slowly down the
track the windows of the tenement
houses on the north side of Railroad ave-
nue. were raised, and crowds of curious
Italians gazed on the unusua spectacle.
the inclined plane down to Pearl street VI
to Washington street. There the mustang
was lowered to the pavement. As soon as
the sling was removed the animal stood
trembling for a moment and then tep-
pied over. He was covered with foam
and there were several cuts on his legs.
The horse belonged to William Pindar Of
NO. 4 Academy street. 1t arrived in the
city yesterday over the West Shore road,
and the car in which it was was switched
into the freight yard at Newark avenue
Last evening q man was taking it from
the car to the stable when a little yellow
%n2ongrel began barking and Swapping at
its heels. That frightened the animal, and
across the yard TO the Pennsylvania en-
bankment up which it scrambled and ran
down the trest1e to where 1t fell.
The S.. P. c.. A. ambulance took the
horse to the veterinary hospital at Com
muuipaW avenue and the Boulevard.