Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-28
RUNAWAY CAUSES
MANY INJURIES
THREE FAMILIES PARTICIPATE IN
SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON WA.
PELLo STREET.
TEAM is KILLED.
Dropping Of Pole Causes Horses to
Break For Liberty and They
Dash Bupgy Into Another
Carriage.

| Dash Buggy Into Another
Carriage.
One woman painfully injured, man.
woman and child more orless bruised ;
a team of valuable horses killed and
two vehicles demolished is the total
OF damage from what promised to be
even a more serious accident in the
Runaway last night on the Wapello
Istreet hill, just below Albany street.
The most seriously injured Is Mrs. Will
liam Heather, AL West Park avenue.
The owner Of the runaway team is
George Seaburg Of south of the city In
the vicinity of Soap creek. Other par
Elephants in the frightful mixup were
George Seaburg, wife and baby, Mrs.
r. M. Moore, wife of Motorman Moore
of the street railway, and three chill
dren. All of these with the exception
of one child in the Moore buggy were
thrown out and more or less shaken
up. The child who remained in the
buggy, chung in desperation to the
seat and was unhurt. Another child of
Mrs. Moore's, who was thrown by the
mother from the rig when the col
lision with the runaway team seemed
inevitable was likewise uninjured due
to the happy presence Of mind of the
mother. The heroic devotion of the
women to the children concerned in
the accident was q noteworthy feature
of the runaway. Mrs. Moore while
directing her horse with one hand and
trying to avoid the collision that fol-
lowed, threw with her free arm her
little child from the buggy to the
ground and safety. -
Mrs. Heather who was the chief suf-
ferer from the mixup, showed a hero
! ism that is only found in mothers or
devoted parents. Thrown from the
Moore rig when the runaway carriage
collided with the vehicle in which she
rode, she firmly clasped to her breast
the Moore child that was sitting in her
lap and although thrown beneath the
horse which stamped upon her and
considerably bruised her person, she
shielded the child with her arms and
body taking the brunt of the punish
ment from the startled animal until
released from her perilous position by
the neighboring men who fastened to
the scene of the accident. Three ply
sicians were soon summoned and the
injured were removed to their homes.
How II Happened.
The story Of the runaway and the
subsequent accident and injuries as
related by participants and eye wit
nesses in substance is as follows:
Mr.. and Mrs. George Seaburg and
baby Edna, were driving about 8
O'Clock last night from the country
north Of the city and turned off Court
on Albany street. After leaving Al
bany for Wapello street, the pole or
tongue dropped from the yoke Of the
team and Mr. Seaburg Immediately
| turned the horses into the ourbing. In
doing this the buggy tipped up and the
occupants were thrown out. Mr.. Sea-
burg sustained injuries to his back and
shoulders and was considerably
skinned. Mrs. Seaburg was bruised
and skinned but the child was unhurt
Coming UP the hill on the way home
from the band concert was Mrs Il. M
Moore who resides on West Park
avenue, and with her in the buggy were
Mrs. William Heather, two children Of
Mrs. Moore and little child visiting
the Moores. Seeing their peril, Mrs
Moore when she sighted the approach
of the Seaburg team, now thoroug hly
frightened by the impact of the un'
lcontrolled buggy behind them, made
an effort to turn her horse from the
path of the approaching team and
buggy that zig-zagged down the steep
hill. When contact was seen to DC
unavoidable, she threw the child that
sat with her, out of the buggy into the
marking alonside and standing In the
buggy tried to calm her horse which
she had now driven onto the curbing,
At this juncture the Seaburg team
dashed by and the wobbltng of the rig
they drew, tore off fore wheel Of the
Moore buggy and threw all of the oc'
c,,pants except the little child visiting
the Moores, from the buggy to the paw.
ling. There the little one chung to the
rear seat of the disabled carriage and
! was unhurt. Not so with the other
occupants.
| Mrs. Heather with the Moore child
which she held in the buggy were
, pitched beneath the horse and both In
iured. Mrs. Heather was bruised quite
painfully all over and suffers consider
able from her injuries. No bones are
reported broken although she was skin
| ned and bruised to great extent.
Her injuries while very painful are
said to be not of serious character.
| The child she sought to shield from
the horses hoofs, sustained an injury
to the head and right knee, and was
skinned somewhat. The child thrown
from the rig and the child that remain
ed in the vehicle, we're unhurt Mrs.
Moore while not hurt visibly, suffers
from a nervous shock due to the acct
dent.
4 Team Is Killed. r
The Seaburg team, after collidlng
with the Moore buggy, broke from the
vehicle to which they were attached
and proceeded down Wapello to Sec
ond street and thence east to Market,
where they headed for the bridge and
home. Turned from their course by
crowds at the Market street bridge,
the team swerved down the tracks
and brought up on the Wabash rail,
road bridge, where they managed to
progress some distance before drop.
ping through the ties. Both animals
broke a fore leg, one the left and the
other the right and were shot at