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Show A TOTAL WRECK. THE COWARDLY AND BRUTAL DE. SCENT ON A PAIR OF LOVERS. Drunken and Hilarious Dudei Deliberate, ly Kun Down a Mug-vy and Cripple It Oenupanta A Bab bath Outrage. There was a runaway, a collision ani) a total wreck on the road that leads to Beck's hot springs shortly after dark last eveuing, and two souls came near being ushered into eternity. It appears that one of the young men around town gathered up his best girl and behind be-hind a rapid stepper started for the resort. re-sort. They had been there, bathed and returning to tho city had reached m junction on the road where it is intersected inter-sected by the car track. At this period they heard a howl behind them and turning beheld i buggy bearing dow upon them. On came tho runaway animal with two drunken drivers shrieking like mad men on the scat. It was a desperate position for the lovers, . and a momont later they had been hurled twenty fee over the embankment with the buggy a total wreck and its occupants upon, the ground. Tho driver had held unrelentingly unre-lentingly to the reins, however, and was dragged some distance by tha plunging animal, while the girl undertook under-took to walk back to the springs and was picked up in the road unconscious by a passing farm wagon. She was soon restored to consciousness when an inventory showed several severe abrasions abra-sions on her face and limbs. Her es cort was also badly shaken up, having sustained a severe cut over the eye. Walking into town ho secured a hack and returned for his companion. Tha descent on tho buggv was of the most brutal nature, and although the parties who perpetrated it are unknown to the victims tho members of the police department de-partment will leave nothing undone Ku4 4lw,t, miir a nttriilinmlnrt enrt pal luiruu n yix n il, u ii,,u.,. uuuuuu that they may be apprehended and properly dealt with. No man or woman's wo-man's life is safe when exposed to such characters and six months would nod be too severe. A demolished outfit is scatered for rods along the road while the horso itself was cut in several places. |