TRAM ACCIDENT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 284, 27 August 1919, Page 6

TRAM ACCIDENT

MAN SUSTAINS COMPOUND FEACTUIIE. Another "accident arising out of that form of i'oolhardiiiess winch impels people to leave . tramcars whilst they are in motion took place opposite Mr. L. M'Kenzie'e pharmacy in manners Street yesterday morning. A young man named Albert George G turners, 2-1 years of age, who resides fit the Kensington Hotel, slipped when alighting from ti car, with tne result that his right leg went underneath the car. and was run over by tho rear wheel, the result being a. compound fracture of the limb below thu knee. The injuied member was liiid.opeu by the wheel, and the viclim suffered a blood whilst being convoyed into: Mr. M'Kcn/.ie'.s pharmacy. As \l*i ■''ji'liiizie was not in, and nolhiu;.' 1'!!.!« Jains; done to stop the flow of blooi. ! Xl.ding tho doctor's arival, an onlooker, Professor Anderson,-hypnotist, picked up , the hiceraled artery and tied it up, and :it the same time ordered the sufferer iv doso oi sal volatile, to counteract the effects of the knock on the head Gunders had received as he fell. After his wounds hud been temporarily attended to by Dr. Giesen, Guilders was placed on an ambulance nnd taken.to the hospital. . Gunders, who is a tram-conductor or motorman, was off duly when the acciUent uccurreci. Ho was a returned soldier aud had been shot in action. Hβ cheerfully informed onlookers in the shop that the pain consequent on being shot was "not. in it" with iv double fracture of the leg.