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Show SHEEP PONY RACES WITH FIRE HORSES Salt Lake. Sept 4 He was only a sheep pony promoted to a position between the thills of a truck wagon, but he performed like an old fire horse. As a result, Mrs. Bertagnoll, the owner, was thrown from her vehicle ve-hicle and badly bruised. She was driving west past fire station No 5 on Ninth South, between Tenth and Eleventh Fast streets, at 2:49 o clock vesterda afternoon At exactly that time, black smoke from burning soot in the kitchen flue of the Hotel Utah occasioned a general fire alarm A horse-drawn fire truck dashed out of station No. 5 and turned Intc the street just ahead of the huge driven by the Italian woman. The former sheep pon caught the pace and held It Close in the wake he followed for a full block and a half Vt rhe Intersection of Ninth South and Ninth East streets was Traffic Patrolman Leon Mayhue. He was clearing the way for the fire truck and saw the coming bugy. Two firemen fire-men on the truck also saw it and began crawling back with the intention inten-tion of dropping to the ground and slopping the runaway Then two passengers from a street car standing stand-ing at the intersection began to figure fig-ure in the action. They ran out and "phooed" at the horse with w;ldl waving arms, The runaway swerved and ran into a delivery wagon standing stand-ing In front of Hogan & Pitts grocery gro-cery 6tore The buggy was upset The woman was thrown heally and I the fruit in the rig promised to favorite, fav-orite, customers, was scattered in the dust Bleeding from an ugly scalp wound and groaning from the shock of her fall. Mrs Bertagnoll was picked up I y Patrolman Mayhue and earned Into In-to the Boyle Drug store There she was temporarllv cared for and later was attended by Dr. R. E Steel and taken to her home, 1978 East Eleventh Elev-enth South street oo |
