The Indians surprised the Spanish at night and might have overwhelmed them, if the expedition's horses had not stampeded, alerting the soldiers.
It was a little before this that the horses had stampeded.
At about this time, the wild horses stampeded, and, in the confusion, Grant and Brown were able to escape.
The wild horses must have stampeded through the canyon between me and the sheriff's men.
At the smell of the smoke, horses stampeded from a corral.
A thousand wild horses could have stampeded toward her, and she wouldn't have moved a muscle.
Maybe so, but that doesn't alter the fact that the horses were stampeding crazily down the road.
During shooting, the horses pulling a wagon with three men in it stampeded.
Thinking they were being attacked by an "army of men," the posse and their horses stampeded downhill, once again losing their quarry.
A few stalwarts remained, however, and their numbers were increased by those whose horses had stampeded, and who were, therefore, unable to get away.