SENSATIONAL RUNAWAY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2387, 17 February 1915, Page 6

SENSATIONAL RUNAWAY

EXCITEMENT IN WILLIS STREET. Much excitement was caused in the city yesterday morning through a sensational runaway. The horse attached to a brewery van in Boulcott Street wok fright opposito the Masonic Hall. Tho, wheels of the vehicle were locked, so the horse chose the speediest means of ridding itself from such an encumbrance. It pulled the shafts out of tho van. Then tho animal careered midst a whirling, jiugling, tangle of shafts and harness down Boulcott Street. Once into "the straight" down Boulcott Street it created more excitement. It grazed a lorry at the bottom of Church Street, and set a horse attached to a milk cart to emulate its behaviour. On reaching the Willis Street-Manners Street corner it brought its wild career to a fitting fyiale. It half-skated across the tram rails, and collided with another horso anil van opposito tho Duke of Edinburgh Hotel. The horsu in this van collapsed, and tho cause of all tho trouble being nethermost, his stampede was brought to an end. In the meantime the horse in the milk-cart was doing deeds quite as douglity. It had not rid itself of the cart, however, and as the wheels of this were locked it was rather clumsy in the chase. On the stand by the Albert Hotel it partially collided with a fourwheeler cab, and succeeded in knocking the wheel off. This act was his downfall literally, in fact. The frightened animal was upset, cart and all.' Both tho orißinator of the big bolt artd his successor .wore secured and quietened down. The surprising part of the affair was that nobody was hurt. The thoroughfare at this portion of the city is generally crowded, and perhaps the absence of injury to any of the people present was duo to the presence of Constables Gunn and Hall, who .warned everyone to keep clear of the runaways.