Ogden Daily Standard | 1913-09-04 | Page 9 | Team with Wagon Leaps over Chasm

TEAM WITH WAGON LEAPS OVER CHASM Butte, Sept. The peril of a little lit-tle eight-year-old girl, Jennie Chilling, Chil-ling, who sat In a wagon behind a madly running, fear-crazed team caused no little excitement on the west side last evening about 8.30 o'clock. The horses started in front of St James hospital Tbey ran down West Silver street and turned into South Excelsior avenue A block below- Silver the little girl eool crawled to the back of the wagon and Jumped, landing luckily on a sand pile. She was not Injured The team continued at a frightful rate down the venue Near the bottom of the hill a trench 14 feet had been cut to accommodate ac-commodate the storm sewer which has been extended to that point The cul was 10 feet wide and not protected protect-ed In any wa The frightened horses, unable to check themselves jumped together as they reached the upper side of the chasm. So great was the momentum that the wagon also cleared the ravine and landed right side up The horses were caught two blocks below-Half below-Half a dozen persons saw the team ault over the cut Those who examined ex-amined the place later could scarcely believe that a team could negotiate the ravine, to say nothing of laklug I heavy wagon with them. The owner own-er of the team arrived shortly after the accident. He had left the little girl alone in the wagon, the horses had become frightened and before he could reach them they were away.