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Show Fatal Runaway. Another Salt Lako runaway has resulted in the death of a human being. About 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon the horse attached to Filigan fc Guin 'a delivery wagon, broke loose from the post in front of their meat market, corner of Commercial Com-mercial and First South streets, dashed along the latter to East Temple, Tem-ple, whoro it turned the corner, ran against Richard Harwood, and inflicted in-flicted injuries from which he died at 5:45 last evening. Tho old gentleman gentle-man .lecpiiaed was upwards of 71 years of age was standing in front of tho Emporium, just across the water sec in the street, and it is thought did not sec the runaway horoe till it was too late to make his 1 escape. Sovcral people shouted, and ' deceased turned his head just as tho ' horso struck him. The old man was not conscious from tho time of the accident till he died. He was carried into the Cooperative drugstore, drug-store, where Drs. Fowler and Benedict Bene-dict examined the injuries and discovered dis-covered that it was impossible for him to recover His skull was badly (fractured, tho riuht side was severely bruised, and the bones of the right arm were splintered. No blamo can ' be attached to the owners of the horse. The animal : was fiu-tened to the hitching post, 'and becoming frightened broke awny, ! and ran as above. I We understand deceased leaves a famiiy, who reside in tho 10th ward. |