Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1906-09-13 | Page 3 | Automobile Raises Havoc

AUTOMOBILE RAISES HA vue A big red touring car driven at a rate of speed not less ss than twenty miles an hour dashed across the intersection of or Second South and Main streets at yesterday afternoon scattering pedestrians and teams that to be bein beIn in its path like Chaff haff before a gale The street was crowded with traffic and men women omen and children were crossing Main street when with a warning Honk Honk Honk then machine drove rapidly north on Main street As it approached d the intersection the horn was vigorously tooted and men and women fled Teamsters reined in their animals or whipped them to clear a t path for the ma machine chine the t he driver of which Who Ich apparently made no effort to check the speed The machine had crossed cr the south sl side o of Second South street without mishap when a dairy wagon with closed closet sides was encountered Then rhen the auto crashed crash d past striking the points of the shafts of the dairy wagon throwing the horse back backward backward backward ward to its knees The auto dashed north in a cloud of or dust dus and pedestrians who wh had watched the course coume of the machine fearing that a collision would occur were unable to distinguish di the number The horse of the dairy rose not nt n t seri seriously seriously seriOusly mi red