People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1893 — A Distressing Accident. [ARTICLE]

A Distressing Accident.

Wobcesteb, Mass., Jan. 81.—A distressing accident occurred here Saturday afternoon, resulting in the death of two little girls. Mary Riley and Carrie Smith, both aged 6 years, were coasting on one of the * side streets which is slightly hilly and, losing control of their sled, they dashed down across the main street at the very moment that a fire engine was coming at full speed in response to a fire calL The sled ran di-. rectly in front of the horses, and before the driver could check their speed or change his course the horses had trampled tho two girls to death.