This crash occurred the day before the line between Lakeville and Mayville was officially opened.
In a collision between two trolley cars of the Chautauqua Traction company near Point Victoria yesterday, Conductor Fred Sellstrom and Motorman John Smedberg were badly bruised and the fronts of the care smashed to kindling wood.
Source: The Olean [NY] Democrat, 1 September 1904, p. 5, NYS Historic Newspapers.