| Show RUNAWAY RIE RIDE J DOWN CANYON GANYON J C r T Manager of Buffalo Bufalo Bills Bill's Bis Bi's Estate Estate Estate Es Es- tate Came Near to Door Deaths Death's 5 BLAST SCARED THE HORSES JI ia ash asli h Alons lon Rocky Hor Ended for tor Martin When hen lie le lieas as us Thrown Out of HURRY Buggy I Co Cody c y Wyo May Ia 28 John John Henry Hem f Martin for tor man many years ears passenger F Four railroad In InI In- In agent of the lie Big Biff nr I who now Is manager of or Buffalo Bills Bill's nJ's W. W F. F Cod Cody Wyoming estate Is propped up UI In soft sort cushions over oer at Codys Cody's house Ills His fractured I right leg Ice is In I a sling and he ne Is ls su SUI rounded by restoring nerve ner e tonics tonic He lie Hein has in I. I in iu lust t t ma made e a sensational race with de death n laWn down Shoshone canyon lve live miles west ivest of Cod Cody and amI thou though h he es es- es mies with wih his life cam eam near losing r tho the nerve for which he has been so famous Shoshone canyon is 2000 feet teel deep Its Is solid granite walls Als rise perpendicularly ary from the roaring Shoshone rl river r. r which tumbled over a solid sold rock bed bel The government is building a dam 32 feet high toward the northern en end o ol of the canyon with wih the Intention of ot transforming it I Into a great storage tank for a reserve refer e supply of Irrigating wa water ter terI It I was ns necessary r for Cor the government In hii doing this work to t cut cu a fifteen fifteen- foot wide cornice cornic in ono one of the perpendicular perpendicular per per- and winding granite granie walls wall wals of the canyon This r road H I Is about feet foot long and nd In that distance It I rises 00 feet above the the- river The government government gov gay engineers are tiring firing oft off of heavy hea- blasts of or powder at noon each da day and the Jul noise er which Is confined b by the theto to walls alls wals echoes from ono one on side of the canyon to the other and is as I terrific as that of the cannonading ln In a great rat baLcI battle baLc I His Ii Te-ani Te Run HUl Av WI J Away uyI uy I I got caught on the top of that road J j. j with wih two of Codys Cody's fiery lher horses just when the they began letting the blasts blast off alt of the Iho other du day said Mid Mr 11 Martin You may talk about San Francisco and her quake Naples and her rampant volcano volcano vol vol- ole ol e cano cane and the twisters of the plains 4 but the they are ae not In with wih getting caughlIn caught In such a cannonading with wih a pair of ol wild horses horse on a n mountain ledge fifteen fit fit- tf- tf teen feet wide with wih a sheer granite granie side of U and wall ivall wal towering on one you JOO feet to death on the other side After taking a drink out nut of one of ot the restoring nerve hut bottles tes Martin continued The horses went straight up UI Into the air and the they began a wild wid ild dash dah down that road road road-a a dash that i would do justice to the most violent nightmare ever lver dreamed of by a playwright play pay wright right of th the ultra ulra realistic melo mob drama It I seemed as If the blasts had hac taken the top lop oft off ol had hades liades s Up came smoke rocks a blinding blind blind- ing storm o of dust and anc the tho detonations began echoing and anc echoing re-echoing UI up and lown and across the canyon canon To Iee keep those scared yes horses hOIles In the center of or th the ht road was ivas WIS m my only hope A slight to the thu right 0 or to keep those runaway horses In iii the center of the tue le ledge ge as they dashed around the curves meant a dive off or Into space and antI anda antIa a crash clash on to lo the tho rocks below Sa o l I hy by BeIng r Thrown OutI OutI Out Out OutI I realized realised from flom the moment the hO horses es bol bolted c that I could coull not stop the the-m. The he buggy luggy was light the grade was wa steel steep and the thc road roal was crooked Vo Ye cleared feet of that gra grade o in safety and then lien something happened that shut off or m my light I guess ues ono one of th the wheels struck a n rock In the path I 1 was sas flying through the air all for fat a moment and then thou I found myself ly lying ly- ly lug ing behind in the center of the roa road with a terrible pain In m my leg and m- m my clothes clothe badly hally torn The fhe horses ran on and finally dashed cashed off of the road at atthe atthe atthe the bottom of the grade They were wen hemmed hemmel In h by the rocks and stopped I lay Jay In the lie roa road suffering from m my In Injuries Injuries Injuries In- In juries anti and from the lie Intense cold cole for three hours before I was picked up Ul The bug buggy was demolished I have ha gone against about aboul every game that lint carries excitement with It I from pioneer railroading In Indiana to keeping Buffalo Bills Bill's BIs BI's In Indians lant and firewater firewater fire fire- water separate but this close shave with death eath has capped the tho climax and anc shuttered m my well trained nerves I Iwi will trill stay out of or the canyons after this wi and perhaps when the breaks mend I will ili go back to my old Indiana stamping stamp stamp- In lug ing wl ground for a spell of the simple life |
