EXCITING EXPERIENCE ON A TRAM.
AN OUTBURST OF ELECTRIC FLAME. • PASSENGERS RECEIVE A v " • v SHOCK. v Press Association.'* " AUCKLAND, Dec. 9. As an electric tram was-ascending AVellesley-stre&t on- Saturday evening' flames sudde-iriy bu«J out insido the car. • The motojrnian had one hand badly scorched, and- jumped off the car; also some half-dozen passengers jumped out. The tram was running back,on the down grade at i good speed, when an ex-jnotomian j.umped aboard, pulled tlio trolley pole off the wire, And stopped the car.' . ' ' Liter. - The 'motorman was thrown, and diil not-jump off the platform. Tho shock to passengers was considerable, as the scats suddenly became alive and the car lit up with flashing blue lights, emitted from all the ironworlv The controller blow out, and -the fuel box caught fire. • / , . i -
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2059, 10 December 1907, Page 3
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