Serious Coach Accident

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 46, 19 April 1884, Page 2

Serious Coach Accident

FEILDING VARIETY COMPANY COMES TO GRIKF. Tho entertainment which «ras to have bren given by the Feildin? Variety Company at Sandon last night was prevented by an accident to one of the vehicles carrying the party. One brake containing the scenery, &c, also several members of the Company, left Feilding early in the day, and another with the Feilding Brass Band with on- or two other^persona : ! was dispatched about four o'clock; The third brake left two hours later, and" contained Mesdames W. B. Hawkins and J. W. Lightbourne, and Messrs' Gosling' -- sen., Cales, Reading, Richardson,, .Parr,,. A. Bailey, and a little child, daughter 'of' ' M r and Mrs Hawkins. Mr Goslmg^jragj^ driving, and when within about a mire' ' from Sandon, the horses by some means got off the road, and the brake was com-r 1 pletely capsized. Mrs Hawkins had her : face badly cut and bruised, Mrs Lightbourne sustained au injury to her back - and a dislocation at the elbow, Mr Gosling,- . had an ancle dislocated, the little girl was cut about the mouth, and Mr Parr's ' left leg was broken, while the rest escaped-, unhurt. Dr Lightbourne had gone^er j* to Saudon in the afternoon, and of course if was immediately fetched and gave his '/ attention to the sufferers, who were after- '^ ; wards conveyed into Sandon, and furthejr.. '■■ cared for. It is needless to say that tho >■ affair caused a great disappointment t©> everybody, as of course the entertainment; had to be given up. It was most fortunate that the consequences were not of afar .. more serious nature, and tbat four of tha occupants should have escaped without; any injury at all is almost miraculous; "'"'7-'\ ■mr immnaß— i ; 'X „X