A NARROW ESCAPE.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 21, 26 August 1882, Page 3

A NARROW ESCAPE.

As the morning train from Foxton arrived at Westoe on Thursday, the engine alarmed a horse that Wat tethered insid e the rail Toy _fences- by a railway hand, i (we believe, a platelayer) to, whom the horse belonged. - c With, a desperate plunge the brute "broke the tether rope, and galloped up t£e JCne for a few chains, r when it fellinto.a cattle, stopV from, which, .- it extricated ' itself,' after a few' struggles and consequent' loss of skin i and hair. . tlrifortu'aaTely. there IB a'second cattle stop, which, when discovered i by the, ; hons«^idids rtot preteat him mak«; ing a s^Cpnd e,3say. , T^e horse; actually - tried i<> walk on (he narrow rails to get j across, witkihe" 'inevitable' result that he fell. '-He wis e^ifafly siic'cp^ful in getting to«at ; of this 11 Second d'fficurty, and j started nptheine}iiVe at full speed. He ' flew past thej Greatfoijd , station, add the last seen of him was on the road to Bulls, i in undiminished haste. It is. possible i that if; this Had Been- at night, a serious accident '"might have : been the, result, as this is the first; ''reporter! instance of any large Hearst' extricating: itself from one of these cattle stops^ i < We understand that ; it iSjprotab^le^^TWiyiaw Fox will communicate with thp .authorities on,t,he ocJUrrerice.-'!.^ '-.'. " .■',',.".■ '• o