SERIOUS ACCIDENT.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 36, 21 October 1882, Page 3

SERIOUS ACCIDENT.

TRAIN IN COLLISION WJTH A TJiA P. We (Wanganui Chronicle) regret to state thai the L>>liday | rocee<iin4s ot Tiiursdny did not pass oil without a seiioas accideut, which will prubably prove fatal to one at least of the persons involved. Shortly before 6 o'clock on Thursday evening Mr Murtagh Couroy, the well-known express driver, was making his way to the racecourse in a cart. On the seat with Conroy was a lad of thirteen, the son of Mr Wright, employed as a blacksmith at Murray's foundry. The cart was passing ever the railway crossing at the top of liigestre-slreet, when it was suddenly cniighi by the cow-catcher of the engine which was taking out the up-country train. The result was that both the occupants of the trap were thrown viohntly.out to a great distance, Conroy falling into a drain by the side of the road, and the boy into some high £rass. Both were picked up and found to have sustained serious injuries. Conroy's lefi arm was broken in several places, and his internal injuries were evidently of a very extensive character. Little hopes were entertained of his recovery, the last rites of the Church, having been administered by Father Kirk. The boy Wright has suffered extensively in the shape of bruises and contusions on the face and body, b«t it is thought that no bonus are broken. An official inquiry will, of course, be held.