Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-14
FOUR INJURED
AT PASADENA
SIX ACCIDENTS OCCUR WITHIN
ONE HOUR
DOCTOR THROWN FROM AUTO
AND SERIOUSLY HURT
Boy Falls from Bicycle Under Horses
Ridden by Young Women,
One of Whom Is Un-
seated
Especial to The Herald.l


PASADENA, April 13.--Six accidents
within an hour, in which four people
were injured, one seriously and all IN
volving horses in one way or another,
was the record between 5 and O'CLOCK
this afternoon. First in Importance as
well as in time was the accident winch
will confine DR.. A. T. Newcomb OF A
South Marengo avenue to his bed for
some time, he having wrenched his
back badly and sprained his left hip
in a collision between his automobile
and a horse.
DR.. Newcomb, on his way to visit
patient, was running north on North
Marengo avenue at good rate OF
speed in his new Buick. Near Villa
street ne met and attempted to pass
q load of furniture owned by G. M.
Whitaker of S95 North Marengo avenue.
On the near side of the team drawing
the load was tethered by rope halter
a third horse. This animal, frightened
at the near approach of the automo-
bile, swung out at tangent marked
by the length of it's rope, slipped on
the asphalt and fell. The machine was
too close and the accident too unex-
pected for the driver to stop and the
automobile struck the struggling ami
NAL.
DR. Newcomb was thrown over the
dashboard and into the curblng, where
he lay stunned for a moment from the
shock. The machine climbed on over
the horse without materially injuring
the beast and started off on it's own
account For a block it pursued its
way veering a little now and then,
but still making good time until it en-
countered heavy freight wagon near
the corner of the next street. With
h. nfr,A
in a half circle and crashed full into
the side of the wagon, the owner of
which was trying frantically to get out
of the way Both auto and wagon
were completely wrecked by the col
lision.
In the meantime DR.. Fordyce Grinnel
and other neighbors had carried DR..
Newcomb from the street and sum-
moned an ambulance from the Ives,
Warren e. Salisbury stable, in which
Dr. Newcomb was placed and hurried
to his home in South Marengo avenue.
Two Women Hurt
Just before 6 o'clock Miss Dobbs of
Altadena, a woman physician, and Miss
Clark of Lincoln avenue, who were rid
ing saddle horses on Fair Oaks avenue
near Colorado were involved in an &C
cident, from which Miss Clark luckily
escaped with no more serious injury
than a bodily disordered set of nerves
and several painful bruises, They had
been marketing, and with the packages
strapped to their saddles had started
north when a boy mounted on a bicycle
slipped almost under their horses feet
and fell with a clatter on the pavement.
Both horses SHE'D, the one ridden by
Miss Clark so violently as to throw her
out of the saddle. She fell on the
asphalt and was taken into the drug
store of DR.. Charles H. Ward. After a
short rest and the use of some smelling
salts she was sufficiently recovered to
remount and continue on her way home.
Five minutes before this happened a
bay horse driven by Veterinary Sur
geon Smith, startled by the sudden
starting of big automobile with the
muffler off, jumped, slipped and went
down within half a block of the scene
of Miss Clark's accident DR.. Smith
held the animal by mastery horseman-
ship until bystanders could readjust
the light harness which had slipped up
on the animals back and left him prac-
tically free from restraint, save by the
bit and reins.
Between the time of these accidents
there were two runaways, and horse
was found attached to a wagon which
bore evidence of having been mixed up
in another one.
Two Runaways Occur
The first of the two runaways started
at the corner of North Lake avenue
and East Colorado street, where a big
sorrel mare, frightened by a street car,
bolted with the cart to which it was
attached. The horse was owned by a
man named Lynch from Sierra Madre.
In its mad fight on East Colorado
street the sorrel startled a horse at
tached to a buggy, which also ran, the
man and woman in the rig being
thrown out. They escaped with slight
bruises.
The sorrel mare was first reported to
police headquarters by Patrolman Wor
rill, the animal having eluded his at
nolds, half minute later, was talking
to Patrolman Sheldon on a beat farther
east, when that officer dropped his re-
ceiver with a yell, "Wait a minute,
here comes runaway" and dashed
into the street. II was the sorrel, fol-
lowed by the other horse with the
buggy. Neither animal was caught and
Sheldon so reported when he resumed
the conversation.
When last seen here the two horses
were headed due east and should reach
Pomona before morning.
About the time these reports We're
coming into headquarters Frank G
Platt of 231 North Euclid telephoned in
that horse attached to a buggy which
looked as though it had come a long
distance in hurry was eating up his
front lawn and an officer was sent to
get the horse and put it in the pound.
Then the 6 o'clock whistles blew, and
the work day being over the trouble
ended.