RUNAWAY LOCOMOTIVE.

Bruce Herald, Volume VI, Issue 402, 24 January 1872, Page 7

RUNAWAY LOCOMOTIVE.

A singular accident happened, the other in the street's ".'6£ London. It appears that a huge steam roller was in Pall Mall, on some paving work. At twelve o'clock the driver of the engine concluded to go and get his dinner. -He, ''therefore, 'stout off steam «>iid left his engine standing near a statue in front of the Pall Mall Restaurant. A crowd of people soon gathered armind it, including some mischievous boys, one of whom got on the engine and managed in some way to start it. This done, the lad ran away. The locomotive, to the dismay of the bystanders, started off, at first slowly but continually increasing its speed, and presently spread consternation all around. Its first direction was for the statue, which it would probably hare overthrown if not demolished, but when close up to it, the engine turned capriciously almost at a right angle, went straight across the road, and into the shop of Mr Tuompsnn, a. photographic colorist. Tts entrance was effected by the window was totally smashed, and not only this but the heavy stone facade underneath the glass was also "shattered. Several ladies standing in front of the window were slightly hurt, and one gentleman seriously. Two other ladies fainted in the crowd, and being trampled under foot, received bad though net dangerous injuries. The devastion committed by the unruly machine in the window which was full of pictures and fragile articles, is said to have been indescribable, and it is easy to believe that a bill in a china shop could have been nothing to it .