Fatal Trap Accident

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 42, 18 August 1893, Page 2

Fatal Trap Accident

A SISTER OP MERCY KILLED. (per press association). Reefton, August 17. A trap containing two Sisters of Mercy, driyen by a lad working at the Convent, capsized over an embankment near Ika« matua. The two ladies used to go down to Ikamatua by train every morning to teach in the Catholic school there, and return by the up train in the evening. Last night the train was delayed on account of the Greymouth Poultry Show, and it reached here shortly before nine o'clock. The weather was boisterous and wet, and the night exceedingly dark. The two left the station as usual in a sulky driven by a boy. All went well until the trap reached an approach to a bridge when something startled the horse, which swerved around and cap. sized the conveyance over an embank* ment, a clean drop of eight feet. One of the sisters was* instantly killed, her neck being broken, while the other was badly injured, but not. it is said, seriously. The driver escaped unhurt, he being on the road side of the trap when it capsized, and fell on the road. Assistance was quickly fetched from town, and both victims were conveyed to the Convent, when Dr Whilton was quickly in attendance. The sad accident has cast quite a gloom over the place, both the sisters being highly respected by all classes of the community.