Clinton, Nov. 5—A thriller of the moving picture order that was not on the program brought 5,000 or more people to their feet at the Sampson county fair here this afternoon when a second serious smash occurred on the race track. In this instance, five sulkies were piled up, several horse and drivers bruised and cut, and a thrilling mile race was staged between a run-away pacer, driverless and his owner mounted on a saddle horse.
A horse was killed in a similar accident yesterday. The accident came in the first heat of the two eleven pace. Eleven horses started in the event. At the first quarter Romala, owned and driven by J. Stewart of Los Angeles, California, got her foot in the wheel of the sulky pulled by Lady Todd, owned by G.B. Wulliver, Muncy, Penn. At the time the horses were in second and third place.
J.C. Thomas of Greensboro, driving his Warren Allen, was directly behind the Stewart horse and in the smash Mr. Thomas was thrown and his sulky smashed. Warren Allen, driverless, bolted, being in about the middle of what was left of the field. Two other sulkies were broken and the drifters spilled.
From page 3 of the Wilson Times, Nov. 11, 1924
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