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STREET CAR KNOCKS DOWN OLD RESIDENT
Slight Hope is Held Out For His Ultimate Recovery
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 2 June 1921]
What might prove a fatal accident occurred this morning at 11.15 on South Main street, at State street, when Franklin O. Schleffel of 137 West Genesee street, Buffalo, N.Y., was knocked down by a street car driven by Pete Lounsberry. Gordon Hogue was the conductor on the car.
The reporter for the Tribune and telegraph was an eyewitness of the accident. He had seen Schleffel, a cripple, and a man of about seventy years, come west from State street and attempt to cross South Main at that point. The street car was coming from the south. Schleffel apparently seemed to step right on the track in front of the car.
Lounsberry rang the bell as loud as was possible, and at the same time applied the brakes, but too late.
The cripple was struck immediately with the front of the car. He rolled to the west side, and seemed to drag along with the wheels. The car stopped in half its length.
The representative of The Tribune and Telegraph at once telephoned for the ambulance, which was on the scene in less than three minutes. The injured man was rushed immediately to the county hospital. Here it was found that he was suffering from a severe wound on the head. He was unconscious. Slight hopes are held out for his ultimate recovery.
Mr. Schleffel, we understand, was formerly a butcher in this city, and also a carpenter, during which time he constructed many houses in Welland. At the present time he is the owner of an amount of property in this city, and it was on a business trip relative to this property that the man was injured.
The driver of the car is in no way to blame for the accident.
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