Sunday, September 25, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 23, 1904
Takes a Ten-Mile Dash Behind a Runaway Horse. Â Â Â Â Little Irving Potter, aged 13 months, survived a perilous ride of ten miles hehind a frightened horse, which turned the buggy in a twenty-foot ravine, completely covering the child with wreckage. Mr. Potter and his wife drove to Keller station and when, assisting his wife to […]
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 1, 1914
Henry Perry of Grayslake Was the Victim of Unusual Accident on Saturday. Rushed Here To Hospital. Is Given Large Doses of Antitentanic Serum to Prevent Getting Lock-Jaw. Â Â Â Â Henry “Mac” Perry, 37 years old, a well known resident of Grayslake, was attacked and painfully injured by a vicious stallion on Saturday. Had it not been […]
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 12, 1915
Fourteen Dead Horses Lie on the Ground near Railroad Tracks at Beach. Investigation Demanded. Man Said to Buy Horses for Their Hides and Leaves the Carcasses on Ground. Â Â Â Â The presence of the carcasses of fourteen dead horses on a knoll beside the Chicago and Northwestern railroad tracks just north of the Beach station and […]
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 4, 1904
    William B. Sullivan was killed in Marengo by being thrown against a telephone pole when his horses were running away. He was the father of nineteen children, seventeen of whom are living. He was 57 years old.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 22, 1912
Frightened Animals Push Rear Seat on Driver’s Head, Injuring Him. Â Â Â Â Upper Sandusky, O., April 22.-A singular accident happened here. William Leverich was about to hitch a team on Main street when an automobile driven by David Rall grazed the animals flank. Rall slowed down to see if the horses had been injured and the […]
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 17, 1912
Team Buried Under Heavy Fall of Ice and Snow in Chicago. Â Â Â Â Chicago, Feb. 17.-Two horses were killed when 500 pounds of ice and snow slid from the roof of a six-story building at 440 Jefferson street. Â Â Â Â The team was owned by J. Torenta. He left the horses attached to his wagon at the […]
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 6, 1897
Sticks His Knife Into a Horse James Keating, of Chicago, tried to carve his initials on a horse’s hip with a knife and when the police arrived he and his companion, Michael Hinckey, were in the hands of a mob of 500 men and boys who were trying to stamp the pair to death with […]
Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 28, 1905
    The troop stable at Fort Washakie, sixteen miles from Lander, Wyo., has been destroyed by fire. Fifty horses belonging to troop F, Tenth United States cavalry, were burned and also three mules and considerable saddlery. The horses were large sorrels and among the finest in the army.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 20, 1898
    Seventy-four horses and twenty-five carriages and wagons were consumed in a fire which destroyed the livery barn of F. G. Dalgren. Sixty-ninth street and Rock Island tracks, Chicago.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 27, 1914
    South Bend, Ind., April 27.-Maggie Kenna, aged five years, was killed and Steven Hants, aged ten years, was injured when a frightened horse dashed into a crowd of children.