A SENSATIONAL BOLT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 17 May 1907, Page 2

A SENSATIONAL BOLT.

Per I'ross Association. Auckland, Mav Hi. Two runaways caused considerable excitement and some damage in College Hill this morning. Two drays, loaded with earth, were emerging from a now street, when Ihe leader of the first was stui'tted-by a pasMn ; i;u car. Bo!h horses bolted dim.. .... ],,|| t llm l (111 , ho >i"' attached I" '' -i :■ dray went too. The d.-ivev.-, .1. -ViUu ~,,,1 Jj. Gannvc!.. w; re im.U-j, jnee with or control the terrili.-1 ,r,es. The first dray was dragged's 'ittie distance down (lie hill, wlr,-n 11- L nurses swerved on to Iho footpath, :*«•! I-., trout of tile dray crashed into u telegraph polo. The impact smashed (be I> rn -> s (liberating the horses, .I, ,| m ., t!iJ road), ami in-o.ci- a ;; l /in| [|| o hea;y telegraph post, snapping it almost in two. The oilu-r d»,-y I: id reached a cune lower down, and t!ic leader pulled across on 1 1;., f,,..|,,;] lr . ' t |, c shaft horse wi:li urii.i;o fcrce on to another tcleer-iph pnle The leader's harness broke, ami n uoi awav. but, (lie other unlorluuate aniinai dropped dead with its neck and back broken, Alight trap driven h_v Charles Ciuhbert got in the way of the dr-y. a «U the driver, lip roil 1(1 ]>(,; ]Ui!ij)o(l on to the road and escaped injurv Both drays and horses ,ure t'.i,. ~W | iwiy tf J. Lovett.