Electric railway collision.

Hespeler, May 22.—Quite a smashup occurred here this afternoon on the Galt, Preston & Hespeler Electric Railway when a freight motor and passenger trolley collided. Conductor Hawely had his ankle sprained in jumping from the car and Motorman Wright had an arm broken and a foot badly crushed. Several passengers were more or less injured, some being cut about the face the other considerably shaken up. The passenger car was wrecked, the freight motor escaping serious damage. The cause of the accident has not been fully ascertained, but there appears to have been some misunderstanding at the start out of the trolley and the arrival of the freight motor at the end of the line.

Another accident occurred during the afternoon on the same line about a mile south of this place, when a car ran into a buggy which was being driven over the railway crossing. The occupants of the buggy escaped serious injury while the vehicle was smashed. No further damage resulted.

Railways: G.P. & H.St.Ry.

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