Show outrageous AFFAIR yesterday afternoon main blain street was thrown into the utmost confusion and alarm by the disgraceful disgrace tul fal conduct of one of the eastern mail stage drivers who was vas BO so beastly dr drenk drank enk that be he lost all management of his hia horses and drove with such fury fary through tho streets that it was wag only with great difficulty a large number of persons escaped b being ef n gin gln ln aured aa A it was one little boy a sorl soil abnot of stephen goddard was knocked down bys hys by he horses borses and marvelously escaped being fra tra frain train in pled to death A 1 the firby of the affair that thai we witnessed was wag 1 I 1 the stage and six borers coming up the street furiously but evidently not an unmanaged unman agea i 8 runaway the driver instead of keeping them on the main blain street apparently to abow his skill wheeled the horses on to the side I 1 walk to the south of or kimball Lawren lawrence cei 4 store and turned sho abo ta round the market I 1 house measurably quieted yet wll wil willitee with lithe the ibe reins lying cooee upon them the horses docil took round roand to the back of jennins store where they came to a halt bait at that moment the y got from the stage and the drunkard began again and the horses started turning turn iiii over a wood pile and landin landing the stage on i s side in an opposite direction the animal animals disengaged from everything but the he front wheels ran through between the buildings into main alain street crossed to the opposite side of the street smashed everything in their t h e 1 r way upset a candy stall and threw don down the verandah poles of a store there were a large number of persons at th thit tint it place pi see tee who had to save themselves from the frightened horses here God dards ittle little boy was trying bryin I 1 to io get out of 0 the way when the off leader i knocked him down and the other horses turned I 1 him over 01 er and over like a foot bal ball the horses still kept 0 on a and toor tool for south i street where they pot got entangled with I 1 a yoke of oxen attached to a wagon 0 and there came to stand still we cannot help expressing the hope thai that the eastern stage company will be brought to a realizing gens sens of its responsibility aej the right 11 that the traveling public as well as i other others have to expect sober and intelligent employees in its service we are confident that had bad such an affair occurred in connection with the western overland uail mail companas Comp anys stage it would have been the last time that that driver would have drawn reins for them but we regret to be forced to add ada that there are too many things of a similar kind in connection with the eastern lam lal mill rail lall service |