New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-20
HORSE DASHES UPSTAIRS.
CAUSES TERROR AND RUIN IN GROCERY
STORE
PLUNGES UP TWENTY-oNE STEPS TO SEC
OND- FLOOR. IS LASSOED AND Low
Erred ON AN ELEVATOR.

| A horse ran away in Eighth-ave. last evening,
! dragged its owner for distance along the
! asphalt on his back, got loose and at Forty
! fourth-st. grew tired of the roadway and took
! to the sidewalk. Two men. one a cripple and a
| woman got in the animals way and were
! promptly knocked down and run over. At
| Forty-ffth-st. the horse decided that there was
no reason why he should keep on the sidewalk
and noticing the open door of Smith & Silps
grocery, decided to go in there,
He did it quickly and his appearance was
such a surprise that clerks and customers fled
in terror Overturnng crates of eggs, trays of
vegetables and doing much damage the run
away dashed through inner door and bound
ed up the long flight of twenty-one steps to the
second floor.
The horse reached the second floor. and. still
going at a mad gallop. ran toward the rear.
! Several barrels Of groceries We're taken in
leap, and the animal came down on the floor
with force enough almost to go through and
the chandeliers in the store below fell with a
crash. The men at work the second floor
hardly knew whether to believe their senses.
John Cleary. of No 21S West Forty
mailing up box
Run mini" he shouted, in his rich brogue
its the divil HIMSELF" CIeary stopped long
enough to hurl his hammer at the horse and
then fled to the roof He found there later.
and could hardly be induced to down.
CAUGHT WITH A LASSO.
The horse was all this time dragging the
shafts of the runabout. from which he had
broken loose. and he tried to get through be-
tween two columns preparatory to leaping
through window he stuck fast. The men tried
to approach the animal, but he kicked and
snorted and ntimated that there was lots of
devltry left. John Kennedy driver who
worked on ranch. got clothesline from
shelf and
How to get the beast downstairs the next
problem To induce him TO walk down was a
waste of time, and it was not attempted.
1t was decided to wait a little while for the
animal to get over its fright. This done.
and after much trouble the horse backed
into the elevator. When it began TO descend
the horse broke out again, and, rearing and
plunging made Kennedy's position a dangerous
one The bottom was reached without injury
him or the horse. however and the animal
was taken to a stable.
BROKEN SHAFT CAUSED THE TROUBLE.
The horse is owned by Moe Elsman. connected
with the Freproohne Manufacturing Company
of No. 610 West Forty -ninth-st., and living at
the Hotel Lincoln, Broadway and Fifty second
ST. After finishing work Mr. Esman and a
friend. Richard Phillips, of the firm, or
dered their runabouts and trotters brought
around They intended to take turn up
Eighth-ave. and on the Speedway. AT Forty
third-st Eisman's shaft pulled out, and hit his
horse the heels The animal is extremely
high spirited. and began TO plunge and rear
MI blSudn tIleu 10 quiet the morse pN letting
the reins having about yards slack
the seat 1t proved futile, and before he could
realize mis- danger he was jerked from his
about to the asphalt and, rolling and sliding.
was pulled a distance of sixty or seventy feet
before he let go.
AT Forty -fourth-st the horse struck mail
box, tore il loose and its contents were dis
tributed over the street. Mrs. Mary Palmer.
thirty-ive years old. OF No 81 West Forty
fourth-st was knocked down Although not
seriously hurt. she tainted from fright.
John D0nahue. forty-one years old, driver
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much bruised. Charles Baker, fifty-ive years
old who walks with crutches. was knocked into
the gutter. but his chief injury a slight cut
Mr.. Eisman escaped with some bumps and the
loss of his suit Of clothes and square inches
of cuticle.