SYDNEY FERRY SMASH.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1924, Page 2

SYDNEY FERRY SMASH.

uNE KILLED AND .SEVERAL INJEREh. IDBIII.VI.IAN AND N.Z. CAJII.E ASh'KI.'TIO.. SYDNEY. August 28. .V serious harbour accident incurred at noon. ’I lie terry .steamer Kareela. when leaving ( iri'i.lar (Ju.ay. Immjii'ii into the end of the Peninsular OtnJ auv'.s w hart. dhe accident is supposedly dne to detective .steering gear. Me- Broun was killed and four other • e .[lie were injured. So heavy was the impact that the steamer cut right into the wharf, smashing the saloon anil .tool; til tings where there were a number of j assangers. Luckily, not many were sitting. Mis Brown v.a.s almost decapitated. Those wounded were jammed among the ih'hri-. The other jas si'tigei's climbed on to the wluiif. or were lak, II nil' hy other ferry steamers which ea me mi the s cue lySo lightly wa- the Katccla I'lnlicddi'.l in the wharf thai three tugs were reiplired lo dag her live. The whole fii|v;.ai t id Ihe .steamer above the hull, up to the wheel house, was .smashed, and col la J 'sed. The hull was net lit; . damaged. FAMILY PARTY THE Yl( TIMS. SYDNEY. August 28. Later informal inn states that till the vii lints e| the smash were a family party, representing leiir generations. .Mrs Blown, was the great grandmother •and site 's dead. Her daughter and grand daughter have fractured limbs. The hit ter’.' itdatit daughter fiartui'ed Its skull. 'I tie child who.v shall was fractured in the Kareela accident has -tiei-iimb-