Young Man Injured in Accident on Hill; Horse Hurt in Second Street
Harry Bowers, aged 22 years, received severe lacerations of the head, when knocked from a wagon, which collided with a street car at Sixteenth and State streets this morning. Bowers was driving a double team for Lewis Stover, a trucker near Reservoir Park.
With Bowers was Clayton Fackler, another employee on the Stover farm. The wagon was en route east on the car tracks. Bowers started to turn his horses off the track when the car hit him.
Bowers was taken to the office of Dr. Thomas Bowman, 1541 State street, where his injuries were dressed. Later he was taken to his home, Twentieth and Boas streets. Fackler was not injured. The car. №500, was en route from Progress to the city and was in charge of Motorman J. L. Dunkle and Conductor R. S. Walter.
Shortly after 9 o’clock this morning, a Second street car, northbound, hit a bakery wagon belonging to Bernard Schmidt at Second and Cranberry streets. The horse was knocked down, and one of the hind legs broken at the ankle. Charles Brougher was the driver. Motorman J. M. Myer and Conductor R. L. Keefer were in charge of the car. №623.
Harrisburg Telegraph, Harrisburg, PA, May 15, 1915