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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 772, 22 March 1910, Page 2

■ Two of the electric tramoars worked.,bjr.~ the Leeds Corporation canie into colli-, sion in Briggate, in the. centre; of the city, recently. The driver of one of the cars, which was from Chapeltoivn, applied the brake on approaching the junction with Boar Lane, but the car did.not stop, and sped on at a fast rate. Another car was crossing the points at the moment and was struck clean in the middle, , the ironwork being bent and twisted, the woodwork splintered, and- the windows smashed. None of tho passengers by the ■' cars—double-deckers—were seriously hurt. The driver of the runaway car was, how- . ever, knocked back on'his platform and. shaken. The conductor of the same car was out on hand and thumb. While somo workmen wore endeavouring to gel a tramcar into the depot in Holloway Rood, London, another jear ciime into collision with it, and three of tho.men were injured. One.of them, John. Livermore; died a few hours later in tho Great, Northern Hospital., . . . . Following a trail of blood from a well near tho Todmbrden golf links to the hoiise of Ormerod Stansfieldj. agod 60, the-'police fount! the old man had bled/; to death, an old wound on his leg having burst. .......