Show BRAVE WORK OF BOYS 1 Risk Their Lives to Stop a Mad Runaway ONE HERO BADLY HURT Jumped Into the Wagon Then to Backs ef f Harsos When He Is Thrown With Serious Injuries His Brother Takes His Place and Stops Runaways As a result of attempting to stop a couple of maddened horses In their wild rush of havoc Cornelius ICooymivn a brave and courageous lad Is now home in bed suffering from a fractured right leg and some minor bruise This morning In company with his two brother he was passing the corner of I Second South and Second West streets when a couple of horses attached to a large work wagon came galloping past without a driver Ho and his brother John both scrambled into the wagon Being unable to get the lines from the scat Cornelius with undaunted courage cour-age jumped straddle one of the horses Al this juncture the horses darted toward the sidewalk making straight for a small store The young hero was equal to the occasion lie lugged furiously fur-iously at the lines and succeeded In holding the animals In the road But In turning them one of tluj horns stumbled stum-bled and foil on the boys right leg fracturing it In the moment of cx cltcmcnl which followed no one thought of holding the horses and they were roou off on another wild dash with John Kooyman who had Jumped Into the wagon along = with his now Injured In-jured brother still clinging to the hind end The boy could easily have dropped off but he preferred to take his brothers broth-ers place After a desperate effort he finally secured the rein and stopped the horses 1 by running them Into a telephone tel-ephone pole In the collision the tongue was shattered nnd the horses fell to the ground The boy Jumped from the wagon just In time to escape a streetcar street-car which was coming at a high rate of speed down the street Neither of the t horses was seriously injured but their front knees were somewhat scraped from the two falls which they had sustained At this Juncture of the escapade Powell the owner of the runaway team appeared on the scene He had been thrown out of the wagon and dragged for about half a block His legs were quite badly bruised but otherwise he was uninjured Cornelius the injured boy was Immediately Im-mediately taken to the Ilover drugstore I drug-store Shortly afterward he was removed re-moved to his home where City Physician l Physi-cian Stewart attended to his wants |