Man killed by the trolley.

A Metropolitan Railway Company trolley struck a wagon in which John Charlton was driving across the tracks at Bedford Park last Friday night and Charlton was killed. The car came down the grade above Hog's Hollow at a high rate of speed. Motorman Webster did not notice Charlton until he had driven on the track. The latter had just left Walter Palmer's hotel and was prevent from seeing the car by the darkness.

He was thrown a considerable distance along the road, the wagon was smashed and the horses ran away. When he was picked up and carried into the hotel it was found that he had sustained a fracture of the skull, a broken leg, and numerous other injuries. Dr. A. E. Paul of New York, who was a passenger on the car, and Dr. Bond of York Mills, both examined the dying man, but they could do nothing to save his life.

Mr. Charlton was an unmarried man and leaves a mother and two brothers. His farm was on the town line between York and Vaughan. He attended the Episcopalian Church at Thornhill and was well known throughout the county. He was about fifty years of age.

Railways: Met.Ry.

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