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Show A CLOSE CALL. The following from the Ogden Herald of Monday last will serve as a warning to Sabbath breakers: On Sunday morning, two gentlemen who resided in this city, left town for a day's recreation in Ogden Canyon, intending to spend the day angling for the finny inhabitants of the river. For this purpose they procured a horse and light wagon and by four o'clock in the morning they started for the fishing grounds. When they reached the bend in the canyon, a short distance on this side of the first bridge, the animal came to a stand. He stood stock still and refused to budge one inch further forward. He turned his head and looked backward at the occupants of the vehicle. One of the gentlemen then alighted for the purpose of taking the animal by the head and leading him around the bend, but before he could reach the horse's head, the equine reared upon his hind legs, made one plunge forward over a precipice, and fell to the depth of about forty-five feet. The other gentleman, seeing his danger, with great presence of mind jumped from the wagon and thus escaped what probably would have been certain death. The wagon shafts were broken, the springs and axles were sprung, but strange to say the horse was uninjured by the tremendous plunge. The team and wreck were rescued from the river bottom and the anglers returned home without a bite. |