Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-09-05
0vER A PREc!P!CE
Climax to the Reckless Ride of
a Fearless HOrseman.
his WILD LEAP IN THE DARK.

It Carried Horse and Rider Past ths
Edge Of a Sheer CIitf to a Fall Of Two
Hundred and Fifty Feet to the Roekl
and Water Below, Vet the Man Lived
Perhaps the most extraordinary faiI
that a human being ever survived II
that described by Thormanby In bis
Sporting Stories" The lucky man
was Colonel william ,Yorke Moore. q
British officer. who rode bis horse In
the dark owe a sheer precipice 247
feet In height and came out alive! II
seems Incredible that such n fearful
experience should result In anything
but instant death, yet here are the
facts, which once again confirm the
adage that truth Is more wonderful
than fiction:
Colonel Moore. who commanded the
troops at Dominica. lost his way one
evening after sunset. In complete
darkness he ~endeavOred to make bis
way home. Two or three times be
had difficulty IN making his horse
cross obstacles. and, at, last they came
to something that the horse would not
face. .
Colonel Moore was a fearless rider.
Again and again he rode his horse at
full speed against the unknown obsta-
Gle. but In vain. At last. urged fierce
ly by whip and spur, the terrified ami
nal. with Il snort Of terror. cleared the
low hedge-fOr such the obstruction
proved to be-and went over the cliff.
Colonel Moore says that during his
flight on horseback through the air
every event Of bis whole life seemed
to pass In a luminous panorama be-
fore him. Suddenly there came "A ter
rife conclusion. which deprived him
OF his senses and left him with his
legs in the sea and his body on the
rocks. apparently dead.
He must have lain there stunned for
some hours, for when ut last the lap.
ping water and the cool breezes restor.
ed him the moon was shining brightly
in midheaven. and its beams fell upon
the upturned, g~iittering shoes Of his
gallant horse. which lay dead and
mangled beside him.
AS o o as he had collected his scat
tered wits Colonel Moore coolly began
to examine himself to ascertain what
injuries he had sustained. He found
that be was severely cut about the
body and head. that his right ankle
was dislocaied and that his back was
benumbed Or paraIyzed BY the cOncus-
sion Of his fall. "....
Il When the rose it shOne upon his
bare. bleeding head with such intoi.
cradle heat that, as u protection from
its rays. he tied his cotton handker.
chief about bis forehead. Above his
head projected the two ends Of the
knotted bandage stained crimson with
bis blood. o.. 49,.
After lying in horrible pain for sew
erai hours he spied a boatfui of na-
tives rowing toward the spot where he
lay. As they came nea be hailed
them in a faint voice. but the mo-
ment they saw the CHASTITY figure Of
the colonel. with his bloody headdress,
they set up a yell and r0wed away as
IL 10000 tiends after them.
After some time a single black man
came clambering over the rocks. in.
tent on catching fish. He was within
a few yards Of the colonel when the
latter hailed him. The moment the ne
gro caught sight OF the bleeding head
and the blood stained bandage he. too,
uttered a fearful yell. flung down his
rod and line and scrambled or over
the rocks as fast as bis feet and hands
would carry him.
The colonel now began to resign him.
self to the prospect of a lingering
but fortunately his English
servant, alarmed at his masters alb
sence. went In search Of him and fol-
the horses tracks. at. last came
to the edge Of the precipice.
The sudden disappearance OF the
hoof prints ear the low hedge fence
him that an accident had
happened. He raj toIthe barracks and
got out a boat. Which a party of SOL
diers rowed to the foot Of the cliff. D.
Very tenderly and carefully the SOL
diers lifted the colonel into the boat
and brought him back to the barracks.
For some months be lay in great pain
md danger. but in time the paralyzed
muscles OF his back recovered. and
eventually he was restored to complete
Not even the slightest touch
II lameness remained to remind him
his fall.
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