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Show RUNAWAY HORSES CAUSE PANIC ON MAIN STREET Armour's big team of blacks dashed madly along Main street Thursday afternoon after-noon at about 6 o'clock and might have killed some of tho throng on the pavement pave-ment had not Patrolman R. Beynon and a citizen, George Smith, at the risk of their own lives, slopped thorn In front of Scott's hardware store, 168 South Main street. The horses, which had been left In front of the store of F. Auerbach & Bro 144 South Main street, became frightened at a street sweeper's pushcart. They were attached to an unloaded meat wagon. wag-on. Although they are huge animals, they got Into motion with the celerity of tbor-oughbrod tbor-oughbrod racers. As they dashed along the street they turned out for several other wagons, but as they approached the hardware store they swerved and were making straight for the sidewalk, when Beynon and Smith sighted them at about tho same time. Smith rushed out Into the street and seized one horse by the bridle, and an instant later Beynon grabbed the other one. The two men were pulled off their feet, but hung on gamely and the horse which Smith had hold of slipped on tho wet street and fell. The other horso was on the pavement before Beynon got him stopped, after the fallon horso had "been dragged almost his own length. A bicycle belonging to Frank Ostillogh, a delivery boy for rtlchardson & Adams, was badly damaged under the horses' feet. Neither of the horses was hurt and the wagon was not damaged, but If they had not been atopped Just at that moment mo-ment they would have crashed through a plate glass window and doubtless would have killed women and children who were directly In the path on which thoy were headed The only damage was to the delivery boy's bicycle. |