{"id":9296,"date":"2014-02-24T04:06:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T11:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=9296"},"modified":"2014-02-24T04:06:55","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T11:06:55","slug":"remarkable-nerve-of-holyoke-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/24\/remarkable-nerve-of-holyoke-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Remarkable Nerve of Holyoke Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>24 February 1914<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9334\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/2014\/02\/24\/remarkable-nerve-of-holyoke-hero\/cutter\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9334\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9334\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9334 \" alt=\"Cutter\" src=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Cutter-300x160.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Cutter-300x160.jpg 300w, http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Cutter-1024x548.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Cutter.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cutter<br \/>Type of sleigh being pulled by the<br \/>horse John S. Lucey was driving<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Dragged Over Street for Block, Finally Stops Runaway Horse<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Holyoke, February 24 &#8212;<\/strong> Dragged a whole city block over the snow and onto the sidewalk, <strong>John S. Lucey<\/strong>, employed by <strong>William F. Whiting<\/strong>, exhibited remarkable coolness and grit when he stopped a runaway horse at the corner of Dwight and Pine Streets about 3 o&#8217;clock yesterday and prevented what might have developed into a serious accident to himself as well as many children playing in the vicinity at the time. Lucey had just rounded Walnut Street onto Dwight Street when the light cutter in which he was riding overturned and the horse continued to run down Dwight Street.<\/p>\n<p>Lucey clung to the reigns with a grip of steel and then it was a battle between man and horse for the next few minutes, As many as 50 children were playing in the vicinity at the time and many of the youngsters in an effort to get out of harm&#8217;s way were getting in the path of the fleeing horse. <strong>Inspector Peter E. Cullen<\/strong> happened along at the time and succeeded in getting many of the children out of the way. Lucey never lost control of the animal and swung him around into Pine Street, horse and driver going up onto the sidewalk. In being dragged from the street Lucey&#8217;s body was lifted high and clear of a small iron fence along the sidewalk and he brought the horse to a standstill without a scratch to the horse or cutter or to himself.<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from <em>The Springfield Republican.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 February 1914 Dragged Over Street for Block, Finally Stops Runaway Horse Holyoke, February 24 &#8212; Dragged a whole city block over the snow and onto the sidewalk, John S. Lucey, employed by William F. Whiting, exhibited remarkable coolness and grit when he stopped a runaway horse at the corner of Dwight and Pine Streets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[405,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9296"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9530,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296\/revisions\/9530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}