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.
from the research of & submitted by Richard Palmer of Syracuse, with thanks