SERIOUS TRAMWAY ACCIDENT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 198, 16 May 1919, Page 8

SERIOUS TRAMWAY ACCIDENT

CROWDED TRAILER OVERTURNS AT CHRISTCHURCH ! [ ■> -THE LIST OF INJURED ! ' ''I I' - -■ !' rißy,,,Teleerapli—<Press Association.. ; Chrlstchiirch, May.'ls.; I . .'Late this afternoon-there occurred the I biggest.,accident vjhich .has, , yet. taken j place on the Christchurch tramways, n ; large number; ■' of ;peoplo being more or f leas seriously injured. A car, with two : double-deck trailers attached, left SumI Her for the city at 1.10 p.m. All the ' cars "were fully' loaded, but not overi crowded. , ! - All .went • well till'.reaching the loop I in front of the Heathcoto, Arms, Hotel, | about , half-way to town, when the rear i trailer left the lines'/ and after, a couple I of lurches fell over on its left side. Tlio ! passengers 'on r top -were-violently - nung \ on to thfl.road. and those inside .were m- } extrlcably mixed up and were showered ! with broken glass.'- • |- It ivas at ofice seen' that between I twenty and thirty people were more or ; less injured out of tlis fifty contiuned in i tha car, Ambulances tind doctors wero ! summoned from town, and those ynaple i to move were carried into the hotel. I All who could hobble'along were taken ! by electric car direct to the hospital i where they were at once attended w. i Some ; of,.the- injured, however, preferred ♦.to!go to their own .homes, and.the drivers of passing, cars, •were very .good in ' assisting with the transport of such ! cases. - Ambulances removed the more seriously injured—nine adults and m | children—to the hospital. >o cause is i assigned for the trailer leaving the rails, i but an inquiry is to be held. _ _ ' Following is tho list of the injured at ! present in Christchurch Hospital;— . ! Eric P. Genn, aged 22, fjerious injuries j .to" left' hand and right foot. ! Samuel Brunton, aged 17, fractured f-skull* . . ii ! ,William Flavall, 31, injury to leg; i John A. Chapman, 41, broken, collar-

i Borthwick, 59, broken left arm. I Bmile Diehl,.62, broken ankle. Mrs. Laughton, facial injuries. i Mrs.-Matthews; facial injuries. Mrs. Keed (Ashburtqn) lacerated face. ! An infant named Needhate, aged two i years, severe injury t<l the HeM. i lan'M'Allum, aged 8 years, shock and ! aged four years, two ! fi lacerated H-ttrl named Matthews aged six years, Ueeu wounds in chin and knee. • rSSeSSe these about fifteen other people ''were more or.less injured, some |being i Sated in the out-patients'.department ! at the hospital, and some going to their I*"as fa'Ta's-can be ascertained, .the i- names are: Mrs. Green aged 50, injury 1 to back and leg, , Mrs. Hero. Mm. Jf*ki son. (Wellington), Mrs, J. Whiter (Weillington), W. Guy, abrasions of knee, L. j Winterbourne, --'abrasion of,, knee, Mrs. ! Adamson, injuries to head, cuts,, and ; bruises, Mrs. W. J Hngta, injnries to 1 "back and bruises, Mrs. John B. Olhver, i out on forehead, bruises and shock, Airs. i'L. T. Olliver, 6hock. .