Smethport, PA 1901: Taking Wood to the Wood Chemical Plant


Log Sled Wrecks
McKean County Miner
Feb. 1, 1895

Ten heavily loaded log sleds passed down Main street on Thursday, all closely packed together in order. no doubt, to keep warm. When they turned into Fulton Street the teams broke into a trot and at Water Street the head load collided with a load coming down that street tipping over and generally smashing up both pair of sleds. Another teamster, in trying to pass the debre, tipped his load into the ditch. Everything considered they were warm.

McKean County Miner
Smethport, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1904
BOB SLEDS RAN OVER HIM
Seven-Year-Old Boy Seriously Injured Yesterday Afternoon.
LAFRONE TERWILLIGER VICTIM.

Both Runners Pass Over His Abdomen - He was Going Home from School. A serious accident, the result of small children catching rides on bobs, happened yesterday afternoon which may result in the death of a bright little boy. The victim was Lafrone, the seven-year-old son of Myron Terwilliger one of the proprietors of the Wright & Terwilliger meat market. The little fellow and several of his playmates had caught onto Clud irons' lumber sleds and were riding towards home. Lafone was on the extreme front of the rig and when they were near the Marvin street bridge the little fellow either fell, or was pushed off ahead of the sleds and both runners passwed over his abdomen. Some little children who were walking behind found Lafrone in the road and picked him up and took him to the residence of Andrew McCabe. The father of the child was notified and hurried to the aid of his child and had him taken home. Dr. Ostrander was summoned and did all he could for the little sufferer. The child is badly bruised and all night he spit blood which indicates that he is injured internally, but the doctor informed us that his injuries, so fas as he could see, were not necessarily fatal, but as yet he could not telll when the result would be. This should be a warning for other children to desist from the practice of "catching bobs." This habit is quite general and every season someone is more or less injured.