"Julius Caesar" bolted from the intersection of 20th Street and Broadway in Denver with a flaming wagon in tow.
The dairy delivery horse panicked when an oil stove inside the wagon exploded while the driver was delivering a bottle of milk.
A passerby turned in the fire alarm.
"As Julius kicked up the snow in a burst of speed down a busy avenue, scattering bottles of milk, six fire trucks took up the pursuit," the United Press reported.
Or as the Rocky Mountain News put it: "They saw the fire careening down Broadway."
The firemen corralled poor old Julius at Colfax Avenue, the News reported in its Dec. 21, 1929, edition - assuring readers he "suffered only from fright."
[Photo: Denver Public Library]
