The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-12-05
THEY HAD A WILD RIDE
Mrs. Addie |. Curry and Mrs. James
W. Hurst Remain in Carriage
While Team Runs a Mile.

A thrilling ride for over mile in a
carriage behind runaway team, the
lines dragging on the ground, and es-
Gaping serious injury was the exper.
ience of two Leon ladies, Mrs. Addie L.
Garry and Mrs. James w. Hurst, on
Thanksgiving afternoon.
The ladies had driven in a double
carriage with one of Norton & Sons
livery teams to Warmers park to wit
ness the football game between Leon
and Mt. Ayr. DIR. j. w. Rowell was
driving, and after reaching the grounds
and watching the game for some time,
ke gave the lines to Mrs. Rowell who
was on the front seat with him and got
oRt to follow the movements of the team
aasing the play. The carriage was
standing on the west side Of the
grounds and Mrs. Rowell had Just
driven little ways toward the south
gsal. There was large crowd at the
grounds and when Leon scored touch
down everybody yelled and the class
Hags were waved vigorously. This
frightened the horses and they wheeled
snddenly, throwing Mrs. Rowell from
the carriage and in falling she dropped
the lines under the horses feet. Mrs.
Rowell fell on her head and was con-
sderably bruised, being rendered un-
conscious for few minutes, but soon
recovered and was taken home.
With nothing to restrain them the
team plunged madly across the field,
ran through the wire fences on the
nerth side of Mrs. j. r. Bashaw's resi-
deace, down over the sidewalk embank-
nent and then headed south on
ohureh street. In going under some
trees the ladies in the carriage were
scratched some about the face and head
and their new fall hats were complete
wrecks. Down Church street the team
sadly raced, the ladies being unable to
jamp from the carriage. When they
reached the Norton barn one of the mon
saw them coming and tried to stop
them but only succeeded in frightening
them worse. They turned east to Main
street one block and then ran south on
Main street to the residence of Horace
Karquhar, where they turned east and
ran three blocks down to the big ditch
inst north of the residence of Il. M.
Smith. 1t looked as if they would
ssfely all pile up in the bottom of the
ditch, but just on the edge the team
whirled and turned and ran into the
nsrth side of Mr.. Smiths residence and
stepped.
The ladies coolly alighted and had the
team tied when the big crowd reached
the scene, expecting to find them both
badly injured. Several automobiles
followed from the grounds with ply
sieians, but their services were not
needed.
The ladies in the carriage were re-
Markably cool throughout the trying
experience and while the team was
racing down the streets they watched
when they were coming to the cross
ings and then held on firmly to the seat
in front of them. How the team ran so
far, making several turns, without up
setting the carriage is one of the
strange things about the runaway.
Several times they grazed against tele-
phone poles and each time the ladies
thought the end had come, but as often
they escaped and the team continued
On their wild flight.
1t was with great sigh of relief
that the announcement was made that
meme of the ladies were seriously in
jared and their many friends are con-
graduating them on their miraculous
acaopo