Ogden Morning Examiner | 1909-05-16 | Page 1 | Brave Driver Saves Outfit

BRAVE DRAVE DRIVER SAVES OUTfIT Ed Ell Wright a driver for the Decker Beeker Browing company had a very cr narrow escape e from what might have hae been a serious accident when ne tie drove his team tam and auel amid wagon into III to tim tho ogen river rier at a point neat near the brewery about a l JO yesterday evening It has been the custom Tor the thc drivers employed by the tho brewery to I drive their outfits into the ford at this point for the purpose of washing wash g them but on account of or the tho high water the tIme bottom of the ford had been heen cut cul cutaway cutaway away and the team Cain encountered a I swift current which carried rap rapidly idly down stream for a distance of or OO yards With extreme difficulty anti and an at al the tho risk of losing his hs life Ufe in tho tue tho swift sw cur current current current rent Wright right succeeded In catching catchin time thc frantic horses by In the bit and ammil head hear heading hearIng ing them a a place of surety when within hut but a few seconds they must certainly have been swept off I their theil feeL Another team was lr procured from the brewery stables I I and anti with the time aid nill of a rope Hitched onto the tongue the tho was waR at last j I j I safely pulled out omit upon tho the bank none imone i j ithe I Ithe the worse for f t l the experience I