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Runaway Team Crashed into Vannostrand Bus Last Saturday Night on Main Street...
A serious accident that resulted in the instant death of a horse, the property of Vernie Dingman, occurred last Saturday evening as the bus was returning from the night north-bound passenger train that had just passed this station.
Mr. Dingman, with his sister, Miss. Grace Dingman, Ralph Frost and Miss. Maggie Taylor were driving south on Main Street in a single seated buggy drawn by a team of ponies belonging to Mr. Dingman. As they were nearing the residence of Judge John W. Harvey, another team, so Mr. Dingman stated to a journal representative, attempted to drive around them and his team became frightened and started to run. Mr. Frost was driving the team but was unable to get them under control, and in almost in instant the runaways had crashed into the bus and the occupants of the buggy were thrown from the vehicle to the road. A hurried investigation disclosed the fact that the pony that Mr. Dingman had been driving on the right side had impaled itself on the bus tongue, the metal pointed timber having entered the animal's breast just above the breast bone, piercing the lungs. The horse died almost instantly. Miss. Dingman's left limb was quite badly injured and the other occupants of the buggy received painful bruises.
The accident occurred so quickly that it is difficult for the eye witnesses to tell just how it happened. Norman Morgan was driving the Vannostrand bus and was just preparing to stop at the house of Henry Landis. Mr. Landis having just met his daughter-in-law Mrs. Frank Landis, and her little daughter of Benton; at the train and all were on their way in the bus to the Landis home, when the runaways suddenly crashed into the bus team from the darkness. Screams, the snorting of frightened horses and the crash of breaking timers resounding upon the air, and it took several seconds for those concerned to determine what had occurred. In a moment, however, the work of rescue was under way, and the dead animal pulled from off the tongue. The buggy tongue was splintered, the axles on the buggy were twisted and a part of the iron work snapped apart. The injured received attention and Mr. Dingman managed to get his buggy and the live horse to town. He remained in Leon until Sunday afternoon when he secured another horse and after the buggy was repaired, drove to the home of his parents west of Leon. It was indeed fortunate that the people concerned escaped very serious injury.
Posted in Decatur County Journal-Iowa June 6, 1907
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