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Show MK ! IIIIIIIKIIIMIanW' . ... Washington avenn". It looked as though the team and the drher would be crushed t death,' but they all es c.iped iujnry. In moving the vacuum plant, wh'.ch weighs about o.fiort pounds, the nia-chine nia-chine is trailed to a transfer wagon, drawn by a heavy team of horses. At the too of the hill on Twenty-fifth street, "neor Adams avenue, something wi nt wrong with the brake on the wheels of the vacuum p'arU. and Its wel.ht was so great that the team could not held It. The horsos did their best to handle the massive load behind them but they gradually lost 1 control The momentum of the vacuum vac-uum rdaat and the wagon gained rap-dlv rap-dlv and at the bottom of the incllno the outfit landed in a Jumbled mass. ' As tho plant, wagon horses and ' drher came down tne hill they had j the appearance of a huge automobile turning turtle, i The teamster clung to the wagon and succeeded in stopping the team, aftei breaking looso from the vacuum plant ft the foot of the hill At the cornor of Washington avenue and Twenty-filth street the left frcnt wheel of the truck carrying the plant, ran into the curb and was' turned over, spreading the acuum wagon with its load of gasoline and heavy pieces of machinery upon the pavement in from of the drug store The frame upon ' which the pl.tnt rested was damaged, but, neither the horses nor the wa'.on were damagi-d in the least, and the drlxer escaped injury. It leipilrcd nearly two hours time for n crew of nun with lifting jacks and Stel bars to place the cleaning plant in a posifon that would permit of its removal to the machine .-hop for repairs 1 ACCIDENT T8 TRANSFER ! OUTFIT Considerable excitement was occasioned oc-casioned this morning at about 8.3n, when a heavy dray iea.111 and wagon belonging to the Jogalong Transfer company were forced down Ihe hill on Twenty fifth stie-tt by the vacuum . dermlni; plant on wheels of II. T. 1 Smith and plunged Into the pitier at Ihv L'Uhua, dnu ilorc coruci ou |