AN EXCITING INCIDENT.

Feilding Star, 17 May 1907, Page 2

AN EXCITING INCIDENT.

-♦ - - [PBB PBESS ASSOCHATION.I Auckland, May 16. Two runaways caused considerable excitement and some damage in College Hill this morning. Two drays, leaded with earth, were emerging from a new street, when the leader of the first' was startled by a passing tramcar. Both horses bolted down the hill, and those attached to the other dray went too. The drivers (J. Wilson and D. Gammell) were unable to keep pace with or control the teirified horses. 'Hie first dray was dragged a little distance down the bill, when the horses- swerved on to the footpath, and the front of the dray crashed into a telegraph pole. The impact smashed the harness, liberating the horses, who dashed off down the road, and broke and splintered a heavy -telegraph poet, snapping It almost in two. ' The other . dray had reached a curve lower down, and the leader pulled across on to the footpath, dragging the shaft horse with terrible force on to another telegraph polo. The leader's harness Iroke and it got away, but the other unfortunate animal dropped dead with its neck and back broken. A light trap driven by Charles Cuthbert got in the way of the dray, and the driver, thinking he could not get clear., jumped on to the road and escaped injury. Both drays and horses were the property of J. Lovett.