Show JUST CRUSHED UNDER I 1 Af ALLING HORS II I I j tt ft I Ridden by bV Roosevelt Throws ws Self and d Rider Off Ten Te foot 6 Into Info i Coos COO t tr r Prevents I WASTON r June Junc 3 President Roosevelt late lateK ar afternoon had bad an exceedingly narrow escape escapera I K Sfa ta ra serious accident while horseback riding in Rock bark f ark I Roosevelt was with the president Rumors of the theS last denied at the I 1 S which gained currency night were i house at the tho time as neither the president nor 1101 Mrs i sevelt felt spoke of the affair upon their return The ru- ru from froDl the occupants of several carriages who ho I he president He Ie was riding a n new w horse a a. young an animal The rue party i ie cut in bank forded the creek and e dOll through a 1 in a ascending J the bank on OH the other side The presidents president's p reared r leaned forward in in th the thi ui threW the reins rein rena down doin in in loons no oia pulling tho horse borse hac backon hack back in reaching top of lA Azin on risk r-k k the horse borso reared a 1 second Ed the president leaned f forward I ht bt t the animal stood tood up straight j d l leJ legs and theu wont put n er I with tb the S Sto ird rd job into ioto the thc creek pres- pres i r sto to Creek I if Mr that be he was WilI going backward slipped d from tho saddle I I and t a as I. I luck luek would have e it fell into th the the creek doso hf th the bor horse boro l' l which i i landed on its is hack back The hn horse e Ml II on 00 tho down lown stream tream side ide of th the thA president who realizing that thit ho hI would be ho in in n d dan In n tzer per cr from Iho tho ho animal lf V feet et should the I j hors turn toward him got Qt out of the wa nay as u rapidly ns os possible I I Tho horse hONie however lr turned o over rr from lie tho president and sol got ot up He lie was cap j i at nt oner one I Remounted Horse I The president remounted and nd rode rOle for foran foran an hour and nd a a. half balf before returning to the tilt white hite house Th The fall from tim the hor horns horn's 1 bark bak to tn the tho stream tream bed beti was 38 a distance of more mor than ton ten feet The Tue stream wa about two feet deep depp with an extremely rocky bed Neither the Jf president no nOT nor the tho horse received erl tho the slightest li injury Pre President i nt Hool two t-n-n regular riding 18 wore were out of commission both being beins indisposed Tho The presidents president's nt s 's ord orderly wished to try out the n new w horse but hut th the president took it upon him himself lr to do this The fhe president was waEl dressed in khaki and anti the tho fact fart that h hp got sot thoroughly wet did not lie apparent nt to lo th those sc who saw him after nl the the- accident Several veral carriages which I had oro crossed d the ford for lust just ahead he ul of the president stopped and tb the occupants alarmed nt jit wh what t was nas as happening Still SUll an Enthusiast Tho The experience with it UP it many serious possibilities h liaR has not dulled tho ho president dent tR d. s 's pleasure in riding and ancl he taken considerable considerable- gratification in th the test of I horsemanship as both hoth times the animal reared he instinctively threw himself forward so that hat his bis head wa was directly heide that that if pf tim UtA roaring rearing animal nUll and the rin being t thrown rown Jo loose Joe e had no tf ten ten- n. n ion f-ion whatever cr to pull the horse back hack ward 9 wV v Y tt I 4 f v N vf sRi I Tj A K Kl 1 rii 4 J I it uL I r j.- j. r t t w 4 0 A S 'S 4 T t L S 5 w S v i if i f 5 5 J rr t g 3 V i I I t b S' S JA S j r l p ff v t 74 7 S 4 ft t I 1 rOM Tr ti HE |