Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-05-17

WEDNESDAY NIGHTS MlxUP.
Mcssrs Wtham and Gregory Tell How They
Saw the Horses Killed.

Nov that tho excite mont oEcg TIA
smash VI between this City ANA Fair
ncla. Wednesday night. is suhslaItE
every one Is trying 10 lind ~; jcst
how II happened. MI. Williams son
admits that IN his excitement ANA fear
after the accident rs got things a ILL.,
III twisted ana. after thinking tine mat
t"r all over calmly, gives the following
40, cunt @; what happened.
IL says yli.t he hJd been To Fairfield
with T.. clair Knox. he stallion hc-
longing ,u -. H. Foster ~ this city. fin
Wct Ffpnk Reynolds Uf WatcrVillr.
near Burgess store in Fairfield and
after some conversation they beth
started for Watuttillr with Mr. Roy
( noids in The Load and MIR. Whitman
/ fuiiouin, sanr 20 frrt behind him.
This distau,,. was Kept practically MA
( the way. IL varied oi course but TIM
| .1,rarn ~ stated a- being about -A
feet The men tllhcd back and fo.th
%, lin road.
\ When near the watering trough an
! tie niH they mt a team going towards
4 Fairfield at a good rat" If sp"c.l.
Neither az the men knew WHO was III
it, as it kept straight on. passing bltn
without difficulty
Soon after this WithHm SAW t,rg-
nulds suddenly pun his horse out iat'
4 the gutter on Reynolds right hans
side. 10 pass another team. With5m
/ was following. about "a feet behind.
\ When he saw the team ahead pull out
lie attempted to do the same but did
not have time. The teams going i1
opposite directions then struck together.
! Williams horse sQucJled and reared
. into the air. going over on top of
Grcgorys horse.
! Whitman says that the next thing Re
realized WAS Gregory coming into hi
| wagon over the dashcr He says that
| he struck this with sufficient force to
I bend il over towards the seat Witham
( did not 40 out of his wagon. He hcll
onto the rail Of the seat. his back go
I irG over onto thc wheel. When h. got
/ to his horse the amin y WAS dead.
! WItham says that h. was within n
foot of the grass On. his right Side ~
the road ana thinks the horses must
have been thrown by the force Of the
collision into the position in which
| they were found. 1t was found that
both horses had been pierced almost
exactly in the same spot in the breast
most instantly ard the other ORG soon
after.
Z. clair Knox was wcll bred horse
valued nj something like $500. He was
| owned by u. H. Foster and MIR. Wit
Nram has had the care Of him for SOW
cral years. lie was hy T. Clair ANA
was q grandson Of the famous General
Knox. Ills dam was pusky Daisy: sir
McNcigh by Winthrop Morrill,. Nc
Weigh was the sire Of Hilton and Cur
rier. lie WAS q fine driver ard was
great favoritc with his owner ana Mr.
Witham.
Neil Gregory and George Learned. who
were IN the second team i'll the smashun
were both seen. yesterday afternoon. ana
together told tho following story Of the
affair Mr.. Gregory had been attending
the meeting Of Linton Lafayette in thi-
cit and after the election Of officers
started for homo US the meeting WAS then
about over ana he did rot care To re-
main any longer. lie had loft his team
ai the stable of DIR. Jolly on Silver street
ana Wfll" ON his way there from tho hall
met bcoISc Learned III front of FOrticr
drug store. lie asked him if he wantc
70 ride home and. rs he did. Ny. Gregory
picked him up on his WY back from tho
Stapic. They stopped ut iIcrhsts for
some cigars ana then logged along home.
nc horse trottcd some hut ala rot 20
very fast ut any ;ime. When they rca-'l-
ca me ton Of the hill near Mrs. T. 4. Iin-
~ residence they brought the anrs
Gown TO a walk. ana say that they waltej
nm az thc way down the hill until thc.
coiilded with the other team
I"th men gay that they Kept on their
right side of the road as near the ear
track as possible. They heard tho Other
leans coming and Mr.. Gregory saws that
ne hoiicrtd to them. Then came the
t, and neither remembers Just how
,hey got ont Ct it. Mr.. Gregory saws tila
Ie Went out the side or his wagon am,
landed ON the hear somehow. lie vas
covered by blood in thc fall. Mr.. Icarnr
went out in a different direction m /
struck N the road. They then turncd To
dnI trlcd to @traiShten out the mixup.
ilerc are the TWO stories told by the !
iriiiclp3iS IN the affair quoted rs nearly |
~ possible as they were told the Journal
ne n"ies We're read after taken ana ac-
hHoWicdSed TO be as they had been gwen
j VIII pc seen that both men claim that |
,,'f were on their own side Of the roai |
T anu 'ntlt they were not going very fast |
ii.linediateiy after the accident Mr. With. |
an TOOK =. ". Husscy ana Deputy Mar