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Richmond Enquirer
Richmond, Richmond County, Virginia
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In Baltimore, wood carters heroically stopped a runaway Southern Mail Stage after its wheel fell off, saving passengers including a lady, infant, and nurse from disaster on Pratt Street.
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Yesterday as the Southern Mail Stage was passing into town, one of the wheels fell off, the driver lost his seat and reins, and the affrighted horses proceeded in full speed down Pratt st. till they arrived near the dock, at the Corner of Pratt and Light streets. An ineffectual attempt had been made to stop them near Charles street which increased their fleetness, and finally their progress was arrested, and the lives of the passengers saved by the determined bravery of the WOOD CARTERS, near the Tobacco Warehouse, who formed a line across Pratt-st. and seizing on the reins, were providentially able to stop the horses, when they had drawn the stage round into Light-st. The stage was full of passengers—among them a Lady, and Child, not seven months old, and his Nurse.
We are requested by some of the passengers, to return their thanks to the WOOD CARTERS, for their benevolent exertions on the occasion—several of whom most heroically continued to cling to the horses, until, by weight and strength, they stopt them.
[Bal. Fed. Gaz.]
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Baltimore
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Yesterday
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lives of the passengers saved; no injuries mentioned
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As the Southern Mail Stage was passing into town, one of the wheels fell off, the driver lost his seat and reins, and the affrighted horses proceeded in full speed down Pratt st. till they arrived near the dock, at the Corner of Pratt and Light streets. An ineffectual attempt had been made to stop them near Charles street which increased their fleetness, and finally their progress was arrested by the WOOD CARTERS near the Tobacco Warehouse, who formed a line across Pratt-st. and seizing on the reins, stopped the horses when they had drawn the stage round into Light-st. The stage was full of passengers—including a Lady, and Child, not seven months old, and his Nurse.