----Sources: Marshfield News Herald Saturday February 19. 1936 Page 7

HORSE SWALLOWED AS STREET OPENS

Broken Water Main Under Street, Horse Falls Through

Neillsville--Undermining of a street by water almost proved disastrous to a horse owned by Joe McKimm, here Friday. While McKimm was driving down S. Court street about noon, the weight of the horse broke through the street and the animal fell into a piy that measured more than six feet deep.

A wrecker from a local garage had to be obtained to extricate the horse, which was lying in the watery pit, and more than an hour was consumed getting it out and on the solid stree again. One of the horse's hind legs was encased in solid ice from its enforced stay in the pit of running water.

It is believed that a nearby broken water main caused the flow of water to undemine this part of the street in its path. The upper surface of the street was only a shell, eight inched thick where it collapsed.