Show RUNAWAY R iT IMPERILS I FO R CHILDREN AND 5 5 DISTRICT t S STIRS UP UJ I No 1 Jarred Off Wagon at First Jolt No 2 Deposited in His Own Yard Along With No 3 No 4 Dragged From 55 S S Danger Da in Nick of 5 Time Timet t 5 S I j I S Four your children in a wagon behind a runaway horse horre furnished for residents of ol Eighth South and ad adjacent adJacent adJacent jacent streets yesterday yest afternoon The children were were Harold Dupaix 4 years ears old Leslie Dupaix 6 I years y ars old Orville Hendrickson 8 S years ears old and Walter Vatter Dickson 13 years old They had been playing layIng about tHe thern house of Mrs Elizabeth A Dupaix grandmother grand grandmother grandmother mother of the Dupaix Dup lx boys boyd at West Eighth South street and when it was time to return home the Dickson boy obtained permission to take them bank back bankin in the delivery wagon of the grocery store kept by Francois and paix at Eighth South and Eighth West Vest streets No o danger was feared in al allowing allowing allowing lowing tIle tHe children to take the ride as the delivery delivers horse Brownie Brown I had the reputation of being beins a a staid animal S with no bad habits The rhe DIcKson son boy mounted to the seat peat and the other children got into the wagon box As the party was vas cross crossing crossIng crossing ing the Jordan bridge the U e bit in the horses mouth snapped in two This frightened the animal and it broke into a run run Half a block away from the tho bridge the wagon smashed mashed against a telephone pole The seat was knocked off olf and with it Ie the Dickson boy fell to the ground He was not hurt and followed after the runaway yelling atthe at atthe atthe the top of his Voice v Children Cling to Wagon The other three children n clutched the tho sides of the wagon box peering over overto overto overto to watch vatch the course of events In Eighth South street between Johnson and Eldridge streets the horse turned into an alley and passing through this a vacant lot Around this lot Brownie circled si six times at breakneck speed Then the horse dashed back Into the alley and again reached Eighth South street I By this time Detective Shannon who lives at 27 Johnson street had been in informed Informed informed I formed of the dangerous position of the three thre children He Iran ran from rom his house just as the runaway turned west westward we westward ward in Eighth South street By a ahard ahard ahard hard sprint the detective managed to reach the side of the horse and grasp the lines which were trailing railing upon the ground He did not know that the bit was broken and as he tugged at the theline theline I Iline line it slipped from the harness ring I IThe The horse sped on A little further i on it turned into a street that was wasI closed Goings Going as far as it could it I swung around at at the barrier and after that made a bee line for the house of Joseph A Dupaix father of two of the Imperiled boys at South Emery street As the wagon jolted over an obstruction obstruction tion timi on entering the Dupaix yard Les Lea Leslie Lealie Leslie lie Dupaix and Orville Hendrickson were thrown out The force orce of the shock tossed the two little joys bos high in the air They landed on o the soft ground bruised and startled but not n t seriously hurt I I Mother Rescue Mrs Dupaix the mother on hearing the commotion In the tha yard and andY the outcries of those who were following the runaway ran from froin the house See SeeIng SeeIng Ing her little boy in the wagon she sh forgot all ill thought of danger d to h and ran ra to the horse seizing the lines which were still sun trailing alter after the run runaway runaway runaway away She was was thrown to the ground but bravely clung to the tho useless line screaming fur tor help for fot the little boy She was dragged several sever l hundred feet before the lines broke and nd she was was left severely injured and covered with mud upon the ground Detective Shannon who had tena tenaciously tenaciously followed the runaway from the moment of his ineffectual effort to stop the animal by this time had reached the back of the wagon He deter determined determined determined mined to save the litle boy from f m the I I I I I i vehicle before repeating his effort TO check cheek the horse and arid to carry out this purpose grasped the taU tall gate It dropped as his hand clutched It But Butas Butas I as he fell feU back Detective Shannon seized the end ofa of a blanket et spread on the bottom of the wagon Little Litile Har Harold Harold Harold old was seated sated upon the blanket Detective Shannon pulled The blan blaI blanket ket slid from the vehicle bearing with it the endangered child chUd Harold HaroldI dropped to the ground His fall was wasI broken by the blanket under him him and he was uninjured A moment later the wagon was hurled against a telephone post and completely upset Had he little boy not been rescued in the nick of time there Is little doubt that he lie would have been killed in the smashup When the tho wagon was demolished and an anI there were no more children to imperil I Brownie Brownle allowed himself to be head headed headed headed ed off and stopped |