New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-06-28
FIRE HORSES RUN AWAY.
THEIR DRIVER BADLY HURT TRYING TO sroH
THEM :

Frightened by the whistle Of an elevated ran-'
road engine and a rapidly running electric car. the
three big horses that draw Engine No. IS ran away
with the engine while the apparatus was being
coupled to a fire hydrant opposite Cooper Union at
PAS o'clock yesterday morning Henry Bohme. che
driver thirtytwo years old. OF No 81 First St. IN
trying TO stop the runaways was seriously injured
and is now in St vincsnts Hospital. Tho fright
ened horses were brought to standstill by two
policemen in Mulberry-st. in front OF Police Head-'
quarters, half mile from where they started
In the basement Of the four-story building a. No.
II Third ave- Lennis & Son have a tinsmfh shop.
The first floor Of the building is occupied a.
restaurant and the three upper floors a. hotcA
One Of the guests Of the hotel discovered IRE an
the tinsmith shop. He told Policeman Rithio. az
the Fifth-st. station, who sent out an alarm Thet
second engine the scene was No. o3. from Great
Jones-st. The company turned out with spare
engine Bohms drew mp at a hydrant IN Astort
Place. near Third-ave.. directly In 'front.' OF Cooper
Union the horses facing westward. Engineer Port
and Assistant Foreman Sheridan started to couple
the apparatus to the hydrant At that moment .,
sleepy guest In tho hotel the last TO DO swaksned
nv the excitement stuck his head out OF window
snd shouted "Firer A southbound elevated rail-,
rad train was passing the hotel at that instant
and the engineer. thinking he was doing public
seryce footed his whistle sharply to call attcnuont
10 the fire. Two Of the horses on the fire engine
were green" and were scared by the whistle An,
instant later brilliantly lighted electric car rusheo1
past them and added to their fright. The horses
started with bound and galloped wildly through
Aston Place toward Lafayette Place
Bohme sprang the head of the horse nearest
the sidewalk while Port ran and caught the bride
~ the outer horse The two fremen were dragged
along and when Lafayette Place was reached
Bohme tried to leap to the back OF the horse
whose bride he held At that instant the forwaro
wheel OF the engine struck the curb The jar
loosened Bohmes hold on the bride and he was
thrown violently 70 the street. Port also lost his
hold and Jumped aside in time TO avoid being
knocked down by the heavy apparatus. The horses
ran down Lafayette Place with the big engine
.waying behind them and the smoke pouring In
clouds from its funnel. Engineer Port and Assist
ant Foreman Sheridan ran TO Bohme's assistance
He was unconscious
At Mulberry and Blocker sts.. just as thcy were
plunging wildly toward huge cavity that marks
the site Of an Italian church. the horses were met
by Policemen Miller and Dulfer. They succeeded
IN aiverting the course OF the animals from the
fy into Mulberry-st. The engine as II swung into
this street struck and demolished a lamppost. The
policemen chung TO the horses heads and were
dragged down Mulberry-st to point opposite
Police Headquarters. where they brought the
Frightened animals 10 standstill. The engine was
badly damaged the axle being split and one
OF the whiffietre broken.
Meantime BoiAne had been taken 10 St Vincents
Hospital and there II was found that he was badly
bruised, and that he was suffering from inteSnAA
injuries.