Randolph County AlArchives News.....Runaway Horse & Cart in Roanoke November 5, 1889
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The Montgomery Advertiser November 5, 1889
Roanoke, Nov. 4, Special. 
Messrs. B. O. Driver and Ernest Carlisle, Roanoke's popular druggists, were 
right badly mangled up Friday night, caused by a horse running away. They were 
in a cart, had been to Rook Mills, and on their way back, about two miles from 
town, while coming down aslant, the horse began kicking and running, Mr. 
Carlisle saw the situation and jumped out, threw himself against the ground, his 
face struck a rock, and cut an ugly gash just above his eye. Mr. Driver held on 
and tried to check the horse, but the horse continued to kick until he kicked 
the bottom out of the cart, and Mr. Driver pulled himself in the foot by the 
reins, fell through between the horse's feet and received a severe kick on the 
leg, and the wheel run over his head and neck. The horse ran to town, ran 
against a post near the livery stable and tore away from the cart, ran up by 
Capt. Weather's, knocked down two panels sixteen feet of yard fencing. Still, he 
never broke his speed, but went down the Louina Road, and ran to the creek near 
J. H. Radney's, five miles from town, and there he turned out of the road and 
became entangled in some grape vines, where he was found today about 12 o'clock. 
The distance he ran was about seven miles, and strange to say. he was not hurt. 
Mr. Driver is able to be up, but Mr. Carlisle is still confined to his bed.

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