Terrible Tram Accident.
. — o • (Per Press Association.) Dunedin, Feb. 2. A shocking tram accident occurred last evening by which a countryman named Wm. Martin lost his life in Princes street. He was proceeding up Princes street incline, which the tram car takes at a hand gallop. As usual there were four abreast in the car, and as the boarding in front of the new Government Insurance buildings drives people into the street, the railed pathway left being quite inadequate, the place is very dangerous. Martin was knocked down by one of tbe horses and disappeared under the tram car before it could be pulled up. The front wbeeis passed over the man, terribly mutilating his face and legs. He was breathing when the car was lifted off bim, but died a few minutes later. Martin is a married man, and lived at Fairfield, Green Island.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 180, 3 February 1896, Page 2
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