The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-11-19
AN EXCITING RUNAWAY.

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Runaway Which Looked
Like Certain Death-Much
Excitement But Little Dam
age.
One of the most sensational
runaWays ever, one which those
who saw it will never forget, &C.
Cured about 3 o'clock Tuesday
afternoon when a mad horse,
hitched to a buggy in which was
a little three-year-old boy, ca
reered down and up and across
some Of the principal streets and
finally turned himself and the
buggy over in a ditch and threw
the boy, safe and unhurt, on to
the sidewalk.
The boy was Regain, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Floyd, and
the horse and buggy belong to
Mr.. w. w. Carlyle. The
runaway started from in front
of Mr.. Carlyle's stables on Sixth
street. The horse, which has
not been given to doing stunts
like that, was hitched to a tree
near the stables. Regain, whose
father is the jailer and lives at
the Jail hard by, climbed up in
the buggy and did some stunts
with the reins that were not to
the horses liking, so the horse
broke his hitch-rein and started
off down the street. He went
slowly and quietly at first, so
slowly and quietly that some
men who were sitting in front
of the stables might have stopped
him, but they paid no particular
attention, thinking the boy had
been accustomed to driving the
horse. Just a little way down
the street they ran into Mr.. M.
NJ. Singletary's buggy, turning
that buggy over and damaging
it considerably, and then Mr..
Carlyle's horse began to run in
earnest. He turned down Water
street at the Jail, ran down that
street to Fourth, up Fourth to
Elm, turning at the Bank of
Lumberton corner, up Elm to
Sixth, down Sixth past the
starting point and down Water
again to Fifth, where, in front
Of Mr.. Carlyle's house, in at
tempting to turn sharply the
horse and buggy were both
turned over and Regain, who had
chung tightly to the buggy seat
during all that wild ride, rolled
out on to the sidewalk, scram-
bled to his feet unhurt and ran
laughing home.
1t was the most frightful-look-
ing runaway you ever saw. To
those who saw the horses mad
career it looked like the boy
would be killed, past all question,
and that he escaped unhurt was
nothing short of a miracle. Men
ran out to stop the horse, but it
was no use. Some men got their
pistolsand guns with the intention
of shooting the horse if it came
within reach again, and when
the horse and buggy rolled over
in front of Mr.. Carlyle's several
stated positively that the horse
had been shot, but that was g
mistake.
The buggy seat was broken
up, which was about all the
damage done, except to Mr.
Singletary's buggy. The horse
was not hurt to speak of. Al
soon as he fell a bunch of mer
ran to him, got him up anc
turned the buggy over, but be
fore that was accomplished Re
gan was safe in his mother
arms.
That runaway was a sight the
like of which one does not eve
want to see again. It mad
! strong men shudder to see tina
: helpless three-year-old boy a
,, the mercy of a maddered brute
: but the Providence that temper
, the wind to the shorn lamb en-
! compassed him about and h
). escaped scathless maybe mex
time he will know better than
monkey with a horse.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd want thos
:, who attempted to rescue the
boy from his perilous position
,, know that they are extremel
grateful for the efforts put fort
in the boys behalf.