Bolivar Breeze, Sept. 4, 1896

Two young ladies escaped a fearful accident at the Erie station

at Belmont a few days ago. Miss Mary Hartigan and a friend had driven

in from the country about three miles, the friend intending to take

the train due at 9:30. They hitched the horse to a post near the

platform and started to go into the waiting room. Just then a

terrific explosion, caused by blasting rock in the river bed near by,

frightened the horse, and with a plunge he dashed wildly across the

platform, the carriage behind him.

He ran a short distance down the tracks, when the carriage

became entangled in some switch wire and the frightened animal broke

away tearing across a neighboring cornfield until finally caught on

the street. He was badly injured, and in such a state of

uncontrollable fear it was some time before he could be guided. The

carriage was badly demolished, one wheel being torn off and the dash

board broken to pieces.