DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - NEWSPAPERS - The Washington Post, January 22, 1896, pg. 2 ----¤¤¤---- This file is part of the DCGenWeb Archives Project: http://www.usgwarchives.net/dc/dcfiles.htm ********************************************* http://www.usgwarchives.net/dc/dcfiles.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ********************************************* Contributed to The USGenWeb Archives Project by: Jamie M. Perez (jamiemac@flash.net) --------------------------------------------------- The Washington Post, January 22, 1896, pg. 2 FIRE LADDIES SHAKEN UP Hurled Against a Cable Car on Their Way To a Fire. Hose Carriage of No. 1 Engine Upset in Avoiding a Collision at Fourteenth and L, but Fortunately the Men Escaped with Their Lives. While responding to an alarm of fire from box 143, at 8:20 o’clock last night, the hose carriage of No. 1 Engine Company, of the Fire Department, was overturned at Fourteenth and L streets. Five men were riding on the reel, and all escaped serious injury. Assistant Foreman Weaver, however, received a sprained ankle, which will keep him from duty for a day or two, and Fireman Reynolds had his face lacerated when he struck the pavement. The carriage was overturned because of the suddenness with which its wheels struck the cable car tracks, as the apparatus was being turned from L street into Fourteenth street. The gripman of a northbound cable car, seeing the approaching hose reel, and supposing that it would cross the street, had stopped his train on the south side of the street, almost in the path that the driver of the reel had started to use. When the car stopped, the driver, F. M. Conwell, an experienced and careful man, was obliged to make a very short turn, and when the wheels struck the tracks, over went the hose reel. The firemen and horses were thrown against the standing cable car, and the passengers, many of whom had started to jump for fear of a collision, were greatly excited. Those who witnessed the accident rushed forward expecting to find every one of the firemen injured or dead. But in a second the firemen were on their feet and engaged in helping the horses from the tangle of harness. The hose reel was not entirely wrecked, but the supporting rods were bent so that it will have to go to the shop to-day. An extra reel was sent to No. 1 engine house last night to be ready in case of a call. The fire to which the company was going was in the grocery store of W. H. Young, 824 Twelfth street northwest, Charles Washington, a colored employe [sic], had thrown some hot ashes into a pine box in the cellar, which caused a small blaze. The damage was about $30. The Washington Post, January 22, 1896, pg. 2 UNHORSED BY A SAVAGE DOG Leaped Up and Seized the Rider by the Leg. The Vicious Brute Hung on Until Horse and Rider Rolled on the Ground-Painfully Injured by the Fall-Dog and Owner Disappear. Joseph Orange, of 918 Eighth street southeast, had an unpleasant experience with a bull dog in the Smithsonian grounds just before 6 o’clock last evening. Orange was riding through the grounds on horseback, when a bull dog, said to belong to a lamplighter, who was in the park, sprang at him. The barking of the dog frightened this horse, and Orange had some trouble to keep from being thrown. Finally the bull dog sprang up at Mr. Orange, and fastened its teeth in one of his legs. Orange tried to beat the animal off, but without avail. The dog hung on with a vice-like grip. The horse reared and plunged and tried to throw its rider, who know that if he was thrown, he would undoubtedly be attacked by the dog, which by this time had been aroused to extreme ferociousness. The horse, in one of its mad plunges, fell over on its back, and then rolled on man and dog. The rider’s leg, already badly mangled, was sprained and wrenched by the weight of the horse, which gained its feet and ran away. It was caught at Seventh street and Pennsylvania avenue by a policeman. The dog also ran away. An effort was made to find the lamplighter who is believed to be the owner of the ferocious brute, but he, too, had disappeared. The injured man was left lying in the roadway so badly hurt that had the dog remained to attack him he could have offered little resistance. Finally Orange was found by some pedestrians, who sent him to the Emergency Hospital. After his injuries had been dressed he was conveyed to his home in Southeast Washington. Orange is a barber, fifty-six years of age, and is quite well known in his section of the city. If the owner of the dog can be found a warrant will probably be issued for his arrest. The Washington Post, January 22, 1896, pg. 2 THE DISAPPEARING DEFENDANT. Rosa Moody Moved and Took Mr. White’s Piano with Her. When the case of Rosa Moody, colored, was called in Criminal Court No. 1 yesterday, the defendant, who was out on bond, had disappeared. A bench warrant was issued, but it was soon learned that the alleged thief had moved two days ago from the latest of her numerous residences, and at last report a deputy marshal was still looking for Rosa. Rosa was put in jail last September on the complaint of Henry White, the music dealer, who claimed that she bought a piano from him and then sought to evade payment by moving it at night from the house to which it was first delivered. It took a jury over night to discover that they could not agree as to whether Rosa stole the instrument or not. After the granting of a motion for a new trial, she was released on bond.