Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-08-16 | Page 5 | Jap Dragged on His Head for Distance of 100 Feet

JAP DRAGGED I HIS HEAD FOR DISTANCE OF II FEET A Japanese gardener was the victim of a disastrous runaway accident yesterday yes-terday afternoon on Washington avenue, ave-nue, losing all the hair on the back of his head and sustaining a sovere bruise on his right leg. He was driving driv-ing his wagon south on Washington avenue when the horse became frightened fright-ened and started to run at a point near Twenty-fourth street. At a point near the middle of the block between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth streets the driver was hurled forward out of the wagon, onto the ground, at the horse's heels. One of his legs caught in the front wheel of the wagon and stopped it from turning. turn-ing. The Japanese was dragged along the ground, the back of his head scraping scrap-ing the paved highway for a distance of nearly a hundred feet, the frantic horse pulling the wagon with the front wheel locked. The runaway was stopped stop-ped near Culloy's drug store and the Jap was taken from the wagon and into in-to the store for treatment. He was partially dazed but seemed uninjured except for the "scalping" and bruise to his leg.