Columbus (Bartholomew County, Indiana) Evening Republican, February 4, 1897, p. 4. SLEIGH RIDING ACCIDENT Columbus, Indiana-Miss Myrtle Long, a school teacher, is lying at the point of death from a runaway sleigh-riding accident. When the horses started running, Miss long jumped out and struck the ground with such force as to smash her face, her jaw bone being broken in three places and her (illegible) injured.