Evidently Had a College Education and Knew Electricity. Ran Sleigh of Steel Into Hall Signal Switch and Train is Flagged.
1. First the Lake Forest horse ran away.
2. It made a bad break by getting onto the Northwestern tracks near the depot.
3. It corrected the “bull” by drawing the sleigh attached to it into the Hall signal switch, causing the circuit to be completed and the train to be flagged, saving its own life and the sleigh.
Can you beat it?
Breaking the hitching strap in some manner yesterday at Lake Forest, a horse to which a sleigh was attached ran away and getting off the road sped along the Northwestern right of way.
It finally came to a stop when the sleigh runners, of steel became lodged in a Hall signal switch. In this way the electric circuit was completed and the signal responded, flagging a train that came along a few moments later.
The brakeman of the train proceeded forward when the engine came to a stop to see what was the matter and there stood the Lake Forest horse, which had evidently received a college education, waiting for the sleigh to be released from the clutches of the switch.
The noble animal had saved its own life.
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