Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-04-25 | Page 5 | Racehorse Runs Amuck; Kills Child

Racehorse Runs Amuck Kills s Child a PICHER Okla April 25 A 25 A year 5 old ld girl was Was killed and and five persons persona were injured wl when en a a racehorse dashed through gh the the track track fence into a crowd crowd of spectators tol today y The police are Investigating a re report report report re- re port that the horse had been given a n. stimulant to increase i its its' speed A crowd of several hundred gathered for the race at the local tra track lt y yester yester- yester ster- ster day There were w two horses entered and the one that plunged Into the tho crowd left the the tra track k within a about out twenty yards ards of U e finish Mildred Willis 5 years old was killed and Joseph Freeman and Mrs Edna Criss were the th seriously injured The Tho slightly injured were were ere Cl Claude do Stone th the jockey Mrs E. E T. T Roe oe mother of the child l killed and Joseph Duncan I 14 years old