The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-04
WILD WEST RACE
TT PROBABLY PROVED FATAL TO
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several Nren Damaged. including . Bioyol,st
-Broncs Rnp n 1iFraE Course from west
Twelfth to Hudson street-Ffnnlly Corrnlied
at 81. Johns Park AFTER Much RicEinE.
A bronco, brown in color. with a white spot on
the forehead, came running east on West
Twelfth street last night at about 0 O'Clock.
Where he came from nobody knows. Where he
went to involves q seVen.year-old boy, n mob Of
Hudson street toughs, a detective. q policeman.
four frcmen, a ropo, freight cars, and all sorts
of missiles.
The horse was unshod. and as he raced through
Twelfth street he took the whole road, all por-
sons save ono went to the building line. and
whatever vehicles were in the street made haste
for the corners, which were turned prccipi-
lately.
Tho ono exception was Edward McGrnth of
323 West Twelfth street. McGrath Is only 7
years old, and when he saw the wild-cyed beast
making at him he stood still In terror. The
horse hit him fair, and down he went. He was
taken to st. vinccnt's Hospital. He will proba-
bly, die.
After knocking Town McGrath the horse ran
from West Twelfth street to Greenwich street.
to Bank street, where It kicked a man
who tried to stop it, to West street.
to Eleventh street, on which 1t ran cast
two blocks. kicking two mon on the way.
to West street, to Twelfth again, and finally
to Hudson. whore 1t ran into a bicyclist, knock
ing him down, and giving him q scalp wound
that a friendly druggist bound up. 1t raced
| down Hudson street, and on the way
showed what a really energetic bronco could do
in the way of long and short jumping, side
leaping, and fast going.
At st. Johns Park, whore the freight depot Of
the New York Central Railroad is. the horse
! paused; there were lights on the little strip Of
asphalt up Hudson street showing that q lot Of
whceimen were coming down, trying vainly to
overhaul the horse. There were a couple OF dozen
freight cars on the railroad tracks and switches
and others were half in the building and half in
ali around the place. The bronco stopped In the
shadow of a car and switched his tail.
A gang of toughs. numbering adozen or more.
was sitting under n shed in Hudson street OPP
posite the freight house az usual. When the
things at fit-bricKs. rocks, and chunks Of wood"
which are always handy in that neighborhood.
The horse began to race around the car.
Leonard street station were two blocks below
when they heard the commotion. They came
running up and proceeded to attempt the cap
But the horse was a frse,boEn son Of the
squcaled and ran a bit, to kick and squeal
again. The detective got hold Of the birdie,
ever. lcaped nightly and got loose again.
Leaving tho horse to, the crowd, Clark and
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and help. They brought rods of inch rope and
closed, in on tho horse. There were 80 many
men about that the horse was forced among Q
lot of cars on a switch.
"Now," said, Clark. we've got him"
But they hadn't. The horse had been used 10
leaping barbed-wire fences in the West, appar-
emily, by putting his feet on the posts. At any
rate, the horse leaped to the top of the coupling
between the cars, and went sailing out on the
other side, scattering the mob thereabouts.
But at last they winded the horse. They got
him unawares. They lassoed him. They threw
him down. but he got up again and let fly his
left hind foot. The foot hit Detective Mangan's
hat and spoiled the parting of his hair. but did
not hurt him. The hat was torn to pieces.
Again they got the horse down, and this time
they had him.
They tied all his feet up under his body,
and they roped his neck 30 that he couldnt
throw his head. Then the iremen. the police
man, the detective, and volunteers from the
crowd that had gathered from every direo-
ton, lifted the horse up-he wasn't q very
big one-and, ehouldering him, hey toted
him triumphantly to the stables a the corner
OF North Moore and Hudson streets, whore tho
horse awaits an owner. A general alarm has
been sent out to find where the horse came
from.