The Washington times., 1901-11-11
HURT BY RUNAWAY HORSE
The Frightened Animal Dashes
Into Crowd on the Street.
Four Persons Seriously Injured
while Attending n salvation Army
McetinE-A wOman's Arm Broken
and Another May Lose Eycsigbt.

-Four Persons Seriously Injured
y" lille Attending n salvation Army
MeetinE-A wOman's Arm Broken
and Another May Lose Eycsight.
A horse attached to an open-top buggy
driven by Harry Kern. pie baker living
at 1125 d Street northeast, became fright
ened last night about o'clock and dashed
into a crowd at the corner of Twelfth and
II Streets northeast. Four persons. three
women and one small boy were seriously
injured.
Kern had been out driving in the after
noon with William Holmes. They were
returning to tie city when the horse be-
came frightened at a car at Fourteenth
and II Streets and the driver could not
control him Both the men took hold of
the reins and tried to check the horse,
but he could not be stopped.
AT the corner of Thirteenth and II
Streets the horse ran from side to side
and the buggy was almost turned over.
He ran across the car track just in front
of an approaching car and then dashed
into the crowd standing on the corner.
For the past six months the lnskip Sal
vation Army has been holding open-air
meetings on ii Street, just outside the
Northeast Temple. and on some nights
the crowd reaches beyond the car tracks.
Last night it was even larger than usual.
owing to the fact that several visiting
ministers were to preach.
About five or six hundred men, women
and children were in the crowd when
the animal dashed along III Street. The
animal threw it's front feet out. knocked
several women down, and plunged on.
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others. and the wheels passed over two
Of them. The buggy was overturned. the
driver thrown out. and his left arm badly
bruised, If not broken.
The most seriously hurt is Airs. w. C.
Peake. of 121 Tenth Street northeast,
whose left arm was broken. She also
received a severe cut over the left eye.
She received this cut when one of the
horses hOots struck her as it first
plunged into the crowd. When taken to
the Casualty Hospital she was delirious,
and afterward became unconscious.
Mrs. j. w. Lowe. 2l9 II Street northeast,
also received a cut in the forehead just
above the right eye. 1t is feared she will
lose the sight of that eye Edwin Joplng,
eleven years old, lib b Street northeast,
received severe cut in the back of his
head. and number of stitches were taken
by the surgeons in order to close the
wound. Mrs. Amanda Hatfield, wife of
Rev. John Hatfield, a prominent minister
OF Cleveland, Ind, received a cut over
tho right eye, having been struck by one
OF the horses hoofs.
Among those who were less seriously in
1ured were Mrs Betty Peal :, 119 Tenth
Street northeast: Sarah Richardson of Is
Ninth Street; Mrs. G. l.. Kelley. of 1855
II Street northeast; Mrs. Flora Manning,
living al lO3 II Street northeast, and Miss
Myra Burrows. of 1902 II Street northeast,
all of whom received slight bruises about
the head and body. The most seriously
injured were taken to the Casualty Hos
pital in the patrol wagons of the Ninth
and Sixth precincts, the others being
taken to their homes in the ambulahees
of the precincts.
A large number of people were slightly
hurt whose names coulG not be learned
but 1t is thought that fully a dozen or
more We're injured. At the nearby drug
stores II was learned that several people
had called for treatment for sight cuts
AT late hour last night all of the in
jured who were taken to the hospital
were reported to be resting quietly.