A Fatal Runaway-1883

DAVIS

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 8/9/2009 at 21:00:00

Preston Monitor, reprinted in the Clinton Daily Herald, September 22, 1883.

A FATAL RUNAWAY

On Tuesday morning, Mr. Israel Davis, who lives about midway between Miles and Sabula, hitched a team to his lumber wagon, and started to the latter place for a load of lumber. It is not known what started his team to running, but when near where the Canada Hollow road merges into the Sabula road, Mr. Davis was heard to yell whoa, and the team was seen to dash down the road in the direction of Sabula, and after running about one half mile, they were stopped by a barb wire fence. Messrs. Coleman and Clark, who were in the vicinity and who caught the team, immediately returned to the place the horses started, and there found Mr. Davis lying on his face upon the ground, stone dead. He had evidently been thrown out when the horses first started, and it is supposed he had his neck broken. Mr. Davis was a man well known in the eastern part of Jackson county where he has resided for many years, He was about sixty years of age.