Horse Leaps Over Fourth St. Bluff 1919

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Date: 1/27/2016 at 16:24:57

Dubuque Telegraph Herald, July 12, 1904

HORSE LEAPS OVER
FOURTH STREET
BLUFFS
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CALM-EYED BEAST CAUSES
EXCITEMENT ON FENLON
PLACE – SMALL BOYS ENJOY
AN UNEXPECTED FEAST
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That the cat is not the only animal that has more than one life demonstrated on Fenelon Place on Tuesday morning.

A mild-looking horse attached to a delivery wagon did the demonstrating, and succeeded in terrorizing the older residents and delighting the younger population by its high jinx. The animal was left in front of a house at the upper end of the street by a delivery boy. Frightened by a bit of flying paper, it started down the street rapidly, increasing its speed as it neared the Fourth Street elevator. The wagon tipped from side to side, and the cargo of fruits and vegetables was thrown out along the street. The horse reached the end of the street and dashed over the curb near Mr. Trewin’s home, and gave a final plunge over the bluff between the house and the elevator. The Fourth Street hill rises almost perpendicularly at that place, and the spectators of the accident expected to find the beast crushed below. The wagon was jammed to pieces, but the people who followed to the edge of the bluff found the horse standing placidly on the rocks, gazing serenely at the broad vista below. Only a slight scratch showed that he had gone over the bluff.

The dilapidated wagon was left upon the bluffs, and the calm-eyed horse driven home. And the small boys of Fenelon Place have had a day-long feast upon the trail of watermelons, and sugar and bananas that followed the wagon.