Run away horse in Bazaar Street

Run away horse damages awning. Source: State Library of Queensland 

The Maryborough Chronicle reports on the 18th April, 1907  that a "powerful horse in a lorry, owned by Messrs Elford Bros., vanmen, was standing opposite Messrs. Corser & Co.'s.,  when the horse succeeded in rubbing its winkers off against the back of another vehicle, it immediately took fright, turning sharply round, bolted across the street on the footpath" .

The reports goes on to state that just past Mr Barbeller's Shop the wheel got caught on the Aldridge's building, snapped that and five or six other posts causing the entire roof to crash onto the footpath. The terrified horse got away after the lorry got stuck on the telephone post on the corner of  Kent and Bazaar Street.

The Maryborough Chronicle continues "most of the iron posts were shattered into pieces, and the glass and the ornamental iron frieze round the verandah was smashed up pretty badly, but the big plate-glass shop windows under the verandah had all remarkable escape from destruction. Altogether about 30 or 40 yards of verandah was carried away."

The damage was estimated to between 60 pounds and 80 pounds by owner Mr W.H. Williams.

Do you know of any other horse incidents on the Fraser Coast?

References
Maryborough Chronicle 18th April, 1907 General News retrieved from Trove 12th September, 2019.

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