A Miraculous Escape.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXI, Issue 5697, 28 June 1902, Page 2

A Miraculous Escape.

PLXJQKY SESCUE,

About five o'clock on Thursday evening, a f email boy was riding a bicycle up Colombo j Street, Christchurch, and, when opposite the Cathedral, a horse, which was being driven m a gig, shied and brought the trap up against the lad. The result was that one handle of the machine became entangled m the loop of the kicking strap. The J lad immediately grabbed the shaft, "and he j and his machine were carried along fop f some distance, both hanging under the I horse's belly. The animal b^eamo excited, | and, getting beyoad ths oontrol of the .j driver/ bplted round Cathedral Square towards Warner's Hotel. Eobert Hull,, a cabman who was standing m the rank there, rushed out, and, at great persona^ risk, seized the frightened horse x and stuck to it pluckily until he managed to bring it! to a standgtm, onlookers fully expec- <■ tod that the boy would be killed, but, upon ■! Ms being extricated from his perilous posi- j Jiion, it was" found that he had received. «* nrjury, and was only suffering frw* fright In a few minutes he ht?4 sufficiently recovered to mou^ his bicycle and ride home. The* only damage to the machine was a bent handle bar.