The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-10
HORSE WEDGED INTO 9TH AYE,
PUSHED INTO ENCAJiTION AND
STICk THERE ; nouns.
Hosting Tackle Gave Him second Tumble
crowd Who Knew How 10 Raise
Horses Wasted Advice on the NtmOS-
phere-Busy Negro In Hole. Too.

A bay horse attached TO one OF r II
Macy Il Co.'s delivery wagons tumbled
into an excavation In Seventh avenue
yesterday morning. II took three hours
TO get him out Traffic on the avenue
was at a standstill and a crowd gathered
TO give advice as TO how the horse should
be taken out Of the hole An energetic
negro saw an opportunity TO get busy and
annexed wallet containing 81. The vic
tim had the satisfaction Of seeing the thief
arrested.
The excavation is between the car tracks
and runs from Thirty-second 70 Thirty
third street. 1t - 10 feet deep by feet
wide The contractors who are doing the
Pennsylvania terminal work are going 10
put in new sewer pipes There il board
fence between the outer edge of the eN-
cavation and the nearest car track but
there ism t a foot Of space between the fence
and the track
The delivery wagon wa= going north on
the tracks James Cummerford Of 3O3
Tenth avenue was driving. Directly be-
hind was a two horse truck owned by
contractor who is ra1ing the buildings
on the Pennsylvania station site. The
truck horses were going faster than the
delivery wagon horse and about the middle
Of the block the truck driver turned ont
to the west to pass ahead The hub Of the
front wheel Of the truck bumped into the
wheel Of the delivery wagon, and the de-
livery wagon horse was ioted so that he
fell mp against the board fence, went
through it and disappeared in tho hole.
He took harness and one shaft with him.
The reins were tipped out or Driver Cum
merfords hands.
When Cummerford jumped OF the wagon
the horse was standing on all fours, With
his legs held tight in snow and mud.
He seemed to he uniniu-cd He was held
so tight that he made no effort 10 move.
and to the onlookers he seemed TO be per-
fectlv contented 10 remain imprisoned.
Policeman Barber Of the Tenderloin station
notified the Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Animals and in a short time
there were a number OF men with tackle
on hand TO hoist the horse to the top of the
earth again.
But hberating the animal wasn't nearly
90 easy as it looked, II was no easy task
to get the tackle 40 fixed on the animal
that he could be lifted The horse made
no objection TO having the tackle put on,
but he was held 10 tight in snow and mud
that the belts couldn't bo got around him
It took over an hour to get the tackle
in place. and bv that time an immense
crowd stood around and every mothers
son OF them knew more about getting
horses out OF holes than any one else
When this derrick was put in use every
one thought the horse would be on the
street in a lily In fact. he was rapidly
raised TO the ground level, but the tackle
gave way and he fell into the hole again,
This time he went deeper in the snow and
mud than the first time There must have
been auckland there. he kept moving
downward 30 rapidly. stanch halter
was put on his head and rope tied 10 the
! heshy part Of his tail TO keep bin from dis-
appearing altogether while new tackle
was being procured.
Getting the tackle on him the second
/ time was difficult. for the animal had be-
/ come fretful The Job was finished after
long struggle, and this time the tackle held
7 As soon as the horse was lifted to the ground
/ level a board planking was made over the
excavation and he was soon on sold ground
The animal wa bleeding from many
small cuts on the body but the dry goods
stores veterinary surgeon. who had been
summoned TO care for the horse, SAID no
/ serious injury had been done
The pickpocket gave the name OF Eugene
/ Ruffin Of 1872 Seventh avenue Daniel
! Dorsor Of l27 West Thrty-third street was
his victim. Rufiin was held Tor trlaI IN
. jefferson Market court later in the day.