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Subject: Prairie Township Citizens From Nishna Valley Involved In A Runaway.
Date: 31 Dec 2001 13:33:43 -0700

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Surnames: Magel, Monson, Jarman, Lovelady, Bade
Classification: Biography

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FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. March 5, l903. "A FRIGHTFUL RUNAWAY".--A very exciting runaway occurred Monday evening about two miles east of town or a short distance west of the Nishna bridge. Many people from Prairie township had been here to hear the Slayton Jubilee singers and after the entertainment they were enroute home when it so happened that the teams of Conrad Magel, Charles Monson and Ed Jarman were close together, Mr. Magel's team being behind. They were all driving slow as the condition of the road required, but unfortunately a spring of Magel's carriage broke making a loud report which frightened the horses and a runawqy was inevitable. They ran but a short distance when they came in contact with the spring wagon that contained Charles Monson, his two sons and his sister, Augusta Monson. The frightened team dashed into this rig and the tongue crashed against the back seat upon which Mr. and Miss Monson were sitting, breaking it from the fastenings and pushing it forwa!
rd stiking Miss Monson with such force that a severe concussion was sustained. Dr. Lovelady being summoned treated the case and reports favorably upon the conditions. There were in the carriage Frank and Glen Magel and Augusta Bade who recently came from Burlington to visit at the Mggel home. When the team started Miss Bade jumped from the carrige but not without injury as a wheel passed over her foot causing severe bruises that required medical treatment.

After running about a quarter of a mile Frank and Glen made their escape from the carriage successfully and luckily too, for at that moment the team ran into another buggy driven by Ed Jarman, but without serious results passed on and soon collided against a telephone pole. Here they were detached from the carriage and separated one going home and the other was found standing by the pole. One of the strange things about this affair was that the carriage tongue was broken when Monson's rig was struck and during the race the carriage kept right side up and no damage more than the broken tongue, but is was indeed a frightful runaway.

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