The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-05
RUNAWAY HORSE
DROWNED IN LAKE.
MIR. Campbell and Miss Bradley
Have Narrow Es-
cape.
FAULT OF AUToMoBlLIsT
Alter Soaring Animal He Dashes
Away-Police on His
Trail.
r AU.LT OF AUToMoBlLIsT

Frightened and rendered uncontroil-
able by a passing automobile, horse
belonging to j. ID. Campbell, of 22ll
Taylor Street, plunged over the en-
bankment of the lake in Reservoir
Park early last night and was drowned,
the two occupants of the vehicle mar
rowly escaping going in with tho
buggy.
Mr.. Campbell was accompanied by
Miss Hattie Bradley He was driving
along the road around the lake, and
was opposite lakewood Park. at the
lights of which he and his companion
were gazing when the accident hap
pened. Suddenly and without warn
ing an automobile doomed UP in the
darkness, taking the left side of tho
road, instead Of the right side, as
should have been done In following or
binary traffic laws. The horse became
/ thoroughly frightened. He reared,
swerved to one side, and then made q
da sh for the embankment, which at
that point slopes down rather steeply.
He was entirely unmanageable. and
Mr.. Campbell. seeing the peril before
him, called to Miss Bradley to jump
| She sprang before the buggy left
! the roadway, out Mr.. Campbell clung
to the reins until the horse was half
| way over the bank. and then he. too,
| jumped for his life.
Horse UnnnnnEenhle.
The unnerved horse plunged in, tax
ing the buggy in behind him. falling
into five and half feet of water. he
swan out twenty or thirty yards from
shore with the buggy floating behind
Alternately he struck the bottom of the
lake with his feet and swan. With
| due precaution he might have been
| saved.
Mr.. Campbell TODD on the shore
calling for help, and several boys who
! were playing about the lake got boat
and rowed out after the struggling
animal. But lie was the more fright
! ened at their efforts to pull him out
Instead of catching him by the bit and
| leading him. they attempted the inn
| possible thing, it is said, of getting
| him in the boat Their efforts, sincere
| as they We're, made confusion worse
| COMPOUNDED, and the horse, struggling
| against them and ag;HSh the water
| lost his strength, and his head sank
| below the water. Soon he was an In
animate mass, and they towed him in
with the buggy still trailing behind
| 1t was impossible to pull the dead
body out last night. and it was moored
close to the bank. 1t will be taken
| out this morning But the buggy was
unhitched and was dragged ashore
Besides the wetting of the cushions,
| the vehicle was not damaged beyond a
| broken shaft.
On Wrong Side of Road.
Both occupants, though badly 11a-
ken up, were unhurt. 1t was said
that had the automobilist taken tho
right side of the road as he should
have done, the accident would not have
happened. But he took the left side
throwing the horse next to the lake
Despite the cries of those who wit
| messed the impending accident and
the yells of the driver, the motorlst
passed on. The number of his ma
chine could not be discerned, but an
effort will be made by the police to
find it and to fix the blame.
The horse. 1t is said, had recently
been purchased by Mr.. Campbell for
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