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Show EXCITING MAUI OH SOUTH STATE STREET Power Company Pole Broken and Shoved Against Hotel Window. As the matinee crowd? were gathering around the corner of. Third South and State streets Friday afternoon a apoe-tacular apoe-tacular runaway oaino down State street and collided with a lUah Lirht and Power conipnnj-'s pole, breaking il off at t lie base and pushing it through a second-story window of the Hall hotel. The wagon and the hotel window were wrecked, but no one was injured. The runaway started in front of the new building being erected by Gus Holmes, north of the (Jhadbourne hotel on State street. A, wagon owned bv Silver Brothers Foundry company and loaded with steel beams which were about to be unloaded was standing in front of the new building, the horses unhitched and the driver, Clifford dain-ison. dain-ison. in the building. For some un-Icnoivn un-Icnoivn reason the horses took fright and. started down State street at a mad pace. They at tempted to round the Third South street corner, but owing to the wciglit. of the load were driven straight for the large window of the Lion drug store on the southwest cor-nor. cor-nor. The tongue of the wagon struck the pole nearest the corner and broke it off level with' the sidewalk, and it crashed through the north corner win-dow win-dow of the Hall hotel as the wagon came to a standstill. The room, No. .'515, of the hotel w.as not occupied at ' 1hc time and no other damage was done in the building. The horses also escaped |