The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-05-13
3 &kD HORSE.
Das;.;-:, st..3 :, .f;ai Hous.. i,ss s'.i"a%lt
Of Some Children.

Il
ot Some Children.
lurSued by i fear-maddenei hurse
up the door steps, in through the dou-
BILE doors and part way up the first
hight OF stairs in the tlat-llouse at No.
l64 East Seventy-eigllth street, four
children tied in terror "Wednesday
night. Grace Mullane. six years Old:
faltered on the stairs, and the hufse
seized her dress in its teeth, brulslns
her leg at the knee. She tore herself
away and ran to her home on the top
floor. Lena Lsfschitz. eight years old,
was knocked down by one OF the
horses hcofS. The blow lamed her
foot and cut Eer shoe. Evelyn Null
lane, aged eight, and Alice Foster es-
capped through the rear hail.
Among u dozen persons VINO VIII
messed the flight OF the children was
Mrs. Danziger, of No. lG6 East Seven
ty-eighth street, who was watching
her baby in a carriage near the stoop
of that address. She saw The horse
coming toward her child and tried to
drag the carriage up the steps. but
tainted from terror. The horse is the
property Of the Rev. Father Eagan,
OF the Church of Our Lady of Good
! Counsel, on East Nineteenth street.
1t is a bang-tailed cob and was not
known to be vicious Father Eagan
loaned the horse Wednesday afternoon
to his friend, John Bartoccina, Of No.
633 West One Hundred and Forty
eighth street.
Bartocolna had enjoyed center in
Central Park and was returning home
shortly before 6 O'Clock through the
East Drive, near the Seventy-ninta
street entrance, when an automobile
whizzed by. The horse reared, throw
ing Bartoccina, and dashed into Fifth
avenue. 4 bicyclist near the entrance
tried to stop toe runaway and was
knocked down. sustaining painful
bruise. Policeman j. II. Kelly hurried
| to Bartoccina'S assistance. y park
ambulance took Rartocc:aa to Presby-
terian Hospital, where the surgeons
found he was suffering from severe
contusions of the legs and body.
The horse ran down Fifth avenue to
Seventy-eighth street, where IL turn
ed east, scattering home-going crowds
and causing excitement at the cross
ing Of the Madison avenue ana~Lex-
ington avenue trolley lines. Fifty
men and boys gave chase, and we're
not far behind when the horse reached
the block between Lexington avenue
and Third avenue. The police be-
lieve that the horse was maddened
with fear when it turned swiftly to
south sidewalk and made for the stoop
at No. 164, where the four children
were sitting.
They had watched the horse ap-
proach. bur were caught unawareS as
it ran straight toward them. Evelyn
caught her sisters hand and dragged
Grace in through the open doors.
Lena Lifschitz and Alice Foster were
close behind. The children ran
through the vestihule and had reach
ed the hall when the horse took the
four steps leading to the street at u
bound.
Evelyn had climbed nearly to the
head Of the stairs when she heard
Grace scream. The horse, carried by
the momentum Of its leap up the
stoop, went up the stairs and appar-
emily snapped at Grace, catching and
tearing her dress and bruising her
! leg. 1t then tunbled back to the
landing and started down the hall
where Lena Lifsch,tZ was overtaken
and knocked down. Mrs. Lifschitz
had heard the commotion and grasp
ing her daughter. dragged her into
their fiat.
The driver of a coal cart, and his
helper, had Seen the horse dash into
the house and followed. 1t was kick
ing and biting savagely when they
got it by the bride and backed it out
into the street. The tenants in the
house were almost panic-stricken by
the uproar. Mrs. Joseph Dahllnger,
wife of the janitor, who lives in the
basement, said: Il thought the
house was falling when heard the
noise overhead"
Father Eagan sent word that be
would make good any damage the
horse had done in the house.-New
York World.