WAUPACA REPUBLICAN

July 17 1885

 

RUNAWAY COLTS.

 

A Serious Accident to Mr. C. Constance.

 

 

            On Monday about noon Mr. C. Constance drove a pair of colts before a lumber wagon downtown, and a number of people who had been riding with him, got out.  Mr. C. then started up Badger Street.  About opposite of Mr. K.T. Chandler’s place, Mr. O.H. Rowe’s team came up behind and started to go by, just as both turned to go down Division or Church Street.  The colts were reined out to one side of the road but did not feel inclined to stop.  The forward wheel on the left striking a plank that crossed the gutter near the Congregational church, Mr. Constance was thrown from his seat over the dashboard on to the evener and whiffle trees.  He clung to his position a moment, but thinking they were going to dash through the fence he let go his hold and fell to the ground, the wheels on one side of he wagon passing over his body.  More dead than alive he was assisted into Mr. W.A. West’s house, where everything was done to relieve him, and some one ran for Dr. Calkins.  The colts in the meantime turned east on Lake Street, dashed past the pint where a cistern is being constructed in the street and kept going until they collided with some maple trees and a fence post near David Yarns’ old place in the second ward.  There they were stopped, and a slight break to the wagon-reach covered about all the damages to the wagon.  Mr. C. was found that, while he sustained terrible bruises, there were no bones broken.  The worst that was feared were internal injuries.