Show A Wild Runaway Late yesterday afternoon near the < Eagle Gate a runaway occurred which nearly proved a catastrophe and resulted in the driver being somewhat bruised and the wagon almost demolished I seems that Victor Wells had taken a load of lumber to Mr Teasdels residence and was returning by the way of First street In coming down the hill between Rowland Row-land Hall and the Eagle Gate the sectional sec-tional box which he had on the wagon slipped forward on the horses heels II The horse got scared became unmanageable unmanage-able ran down to the foot of the hill turned the corner and started for the Eagle Gate At the Eagle Gate the wagon collided with the stonework and Air Wells managed to jump out The collision gave the horse quite a turn and I he headed straight for the Gardo House corner Two little girls had just started across the street from the corner going towards the Eagle Gate and by the merest chance the wagon caught on a telephone pole and the horse in trying to get loose from it was thrown around so as to head down the street j otherwise the children would have been run over The horse in struggling to get away from the telephone pole broke the reach pole of the wagon and started down the street with the front wheels At the Wells corner cor-ner he ran into a covered wagon and his mad career was stopped by some countrymen I coun-trymen |