Runaway Carriage Strikes Pedestrians
A young brother and sister are injured after being struck by a runaway horse and buggy on Columbia Street.
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The German lad who blacks boots at the barber shop in the Melhorn building, on Front street, was coming down from the circus last night, accompanied by his sister, and had got to the crossing of Columbia street, when the horse and buggy of J. M. P. McNaught came tearing down that street without a driver. The animal rushed right into the boy and girl, knocking them down and severely hurting the boy in the head. The horse ran on, striking a post in front of the Meydenbauer bakery and knocking it out. He continued a few yards farther, until he brought up in the pile of stone, brick and mortar for the Safe Deposit building, where the animal was caught and the buggy left in a wrecked condition. The boy was sent home in a carriage for the further examination of his injuries.
“The animal rushed right into the boy and girl, knocking them down and severely hurting the boy in the head.”
Street safety was a hazardous issue in early Seattle, where runaway horses were a common urban danger. Today, the same intersection is highly pedestrianized, though the hazards have merely shifted from livestock to automobiles.
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