A
runaway accident occurred Tuesday evening which will not soon be
forgotten by those who witnessed it.
A team of horses attached
to a lumber wagon came down Main street hill at full gallop and
dashed into a buggy occupied by Enoch Messecar, his wife and two
small children.
One
horse plunged into the top of the buggy and as they rushed down the
hill, the whole mass seemed to crush, crush until all went flat to
the ground at the corner of the Union Block, the buggy smashed into
fine pieces.
The dust
was so dense it was impossible to see the rigs.
The
first persons on the scene heard the pitiful cries of the mother for
her baby.
One
child was crushed in the bottom of buggy underneath one of the
horses along with the father and mother, but the baby had been
thrown from the mother's arms into the street when the horses
crashed into the buggy.
It
was necessary to cut the harness loose and get the horses off
the buggy before the father, mother and one child could be released.
How they
ever escaped instant death was miraculous.
They
were taken into Mr. McKay's store and Dr. Duncombe arrived to care
for them.
The mother
and eldest baby escaped without injury. The child was so frightened
when pulled out from under the horses leg that it could not cry.
The
baby, which is eight months old, was bruised about the head and
face, but not seriously.
Mr.
Messecar was taken to Dr. Duncombe's residence and upon examination
was found to have two or three ribs broken loose from the backbone.
Mrs.
Messecar's father, Mr. Alex Rock of Wilsonville, took them out to
his home late that evening.
Mr.
Messecar had driven up from his home southeast of Simcoe to do some
shopping in town.
The
team attached to the wagon belonged to Mr. Frank Perry of the Round
Plains and was driven by his son, Cecil.
At
the south end of town, the horses became frightened by some wood
falling over the front of the wagon. They started to run and kicked
young Perry on the head.
He
was picked up unconscious but soon began to talk, although he could
not tell how it happened.
He was driven down to York's drug store, where Dr. Snider spent some
time dressing the wounds, which consisted of two or three bad
bruises on the face and a deep scalp wound.
He
was taken home about 11 o'clock on a stretcher.
