The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-30
TRIPLE RUNAWAY IN The PARK
TWO MEN AND TWO WOMEN ARE
SPELLED-TRAPS SMASHED.

Boiling Horse Upsets RunabOut and Cuts
vince From load wagon Mounted
Cop Catches Team After \ Long Chase
Pleasure Crowds scatter In Panic.
One runaway on the East Drive In Central
Park yesterday afternoon became multi
Piled into three with four horses running
wild and a panic among drivers, automo-
bilists and pedestrians. 1t was shortly
after 4 o'clock and there were lots OF vehicles
on the drive.
A bay horse that Leon Tushman Of l25
Broadway was driving north bolted at
Eighty-seventb street. 1t ran up on a
the side OF the road and upset the
runabout. Mr.. Tushman was thrown out
and the horse with free rein galloped north
ward.
At a turn in the drive opposite Ninety
third street the runaway slammed against a
road wagon which was also going north.
The wagon contained two women who said
they we're Mrs. T. S. Miller and Mrs. I. s.
Smith Of the Hotel Majestic. Mrs. Smith
was driving. The collision cost the road
wagon a right hind wheel and the two women
were thrown out.
The wager team bolted and a race be-
tween the team dragging the three wheeled
affair and the single horse and rlRabout
followed. Mounted Policeman Murtagh
chased the runaways, while Mounted Police
mar McGinchy hurried to the aid Of the two
women.
The galloped like mad up the
drive. and everything else wheeled TO the
side Of the road and gave them a wide berth.
At the entrance to the park at 10th street
the runaways took the winding hill like a
whirlwind. Charles Sault Of Sixty-sev enth
street and Columbus avenue was coming up
the hill in a runabout pulled by a spirited
horse. He didn't see the runaways until
they were right on top Of him. and before
he could get out Of the way the swinging
road wagon banged against his runabout
and of went a wheel. At the same time Mr.,
Sault did a somersault and landed at the side
OF the road,
His horse turned quickly in the road and
Joined the runaways. They all headed up
Lenox e At 18TH street Policeman
Murtagh managed to make it a five horse
AFFAIR. He pushed the nose Of his mount
between the original runaway and the team
drawing tue parity WTecheu IOdu NdSOh
, and got a hold on the rein OF the OF horse
OF the team.
II was a hard struggle, but the mounted
cop held on, tugging n cussing until
about Hath street, where he had brought
the team to q trot. The single rugged nags
we're pretty well winded by that time and
they slowed down. Then several men rushed
out and grabbed their brides.
Mrs. Smith. when thrown from the road
wagon. received a slight cut over the right
eve. She and Mrs. Miller we're bundled into
a passing carriage and taken to the Arsenal,
They refused medical attention and sum
moning a coupe vent to their home.
Mr.. Tushman went TO the Arsenal also
and awaited returns from his horse and
rig. The four runaways and what was left
of their vehicles trooped up to the Arsenal
! eventually, with Mr.. Sault bringing up the
| e in the carriage Of a friend. Tushman
and Sault got their rigs fixed up temporarily
| and started for repair depots. Stable hands
got the team and what there was Of the
road wagon.
At the Hotel Majestic it was said last
| night that neither Mrs. rs Smith nor Mrs,
T. 5. Miller was a guest there and that none
Of the guests had been in a park smashup.