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SERIOUS ACCIDENT
[Welland Tribune, 10 February 1876]
On Thursday evening last week, as Mrs. C.J. Page was coming off the Chippawa Creek Bridge, a stick of timber being drawn along slued over, coming against her lower limbs, and falling on her feet, inflicting serious injuries. It was thought that some of the bones of her feet were broken, but we learn that such was not the case, although one foot was badly mangled. Mrs. P. was drawn her little girl in a sleigh at the time, and the stick, striking the vehicle, smashed it to atoms, and threw the child some ten or fifteen feet, hurting it somewhat. Dr. Scholfield attended the case. Mrs. Page saw the team coming and stopped in a safe place, when the team stopped also; she then started on and the team did likewise, the result being as above. The driver we should say was certainly very careless or awkward or both. The accident adds another to the long list of instances going to show the necessity of foot bridges separate from the wagon track, over both the River and the Canal.
As the Welland Railway train going south stopped at Stonebridge last Tuesday week, a wedding party drove up and were compelled to await the starting of the train, as it extended over the roadway. There some eight or ten buggies and as they drive up close to the train the passengers had a good look at them, and were not sparing in comments. “That’s him,” said one,-“see how he lafs.” “Yes,” responds another, “that’s her with the baggage.” The “baggage” by the way consisted of a satchel, stored with the requisites of a bridal trip, we presume. “See, how they lean together-ain’t they just sweet?” suggested a third,-when the engine shrieked, the train moved on, and the unsinged moths were left free to pursue their course towards the dazzling headlight of matrimony.
We are not to blame if some of our subscribers did not receive their papers on time last week. The mail carrier missed the 6.59 train on the W.R. on Friday morning, laying over the papers we usually send by that mail in the post office here until the afternoon.
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