Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

Pushed into a sixty foot well by a frolicsome bull on the L. J. Lobdell place near Long Lake, tenanted by Robert Runyard, a colt was near rescue three times and finally was killed near the brink of the well by being choked to death by the rope about its neck.
Two colts, including the one killed in such a freak fashion, were in the pasture lot with a young bull. In the lot was also a sixty foot well. The colts frolicked together much and Monday the bull pushed the colt to the brink of the well and finally into it.
Try to Make Rescue.
Runyard summoned neighbors and was lowered by means of a ladder into the well, where the colt pawed furiously with his front hoofs, making Runyard’s trip a hazardous one that few would have undertaken.
A harness was rigged about the colt’s legs and shoulders, but when the animal had been dragged half way up the rope broke and the beast fell again into the depths, neighing piteously.
Second and Third Trials Fail.
On the second attempt the harness about the colt broke and when the third attempt was made the rope about the equine’s neck choked him to death, so that when he reached the top of the well he was at the last gasp and died at once.