The Rangiora Casualty.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 14, 18 December 1884, Page 2

The Rangiora Casualty.

* LATER PARTICULARS. (united press association.) • ' . CfIKISTCHFRCH, Dec. 16. From further accounts to hand it appears that Hughy, the driver of the van, observed the morning train from Christcburch cloao upon him. Thinking there was not time to pull up his horses, he gave them a cut with the whip to l^get: thorn over : fh'e engine t was too quick for the .horses and crushed into the side 'of the vau close to the front J»heabvdashiag4t^i*ray2from the horses (which escaped with but little injury) onlfe theicftitfe trap at the Yankee Orossjng, The occupants of the vehicle were thrown iv, all directions. The taost -Badly hart" of the-* sufferers were .qutekly... ppnveyed to adjacent houses, where they received prompt at&jsZ n &?fs oa to 1 P Dowses, Williams add/Gordom iTlfe van .was completely W /!u ' , * n 3 %- w onder is that more of the party were not killed or more ; seriously, -in jwacj. ; \ The front c lmage of tjie .tram^/cqnriderably damaged, the iron stanchions on .the platform being broken windows smashed, but none' of the occupant* Were injured .-^oblaine is attached to the engine-dnverj as he whistled as usual:on approaohing'the crossing, and on seeing the danger, applied the? brakes so promptly oaß.t9jpal),,tt0 aß.t9jpal),,ttp Ithe1 the tyain with, m a few yards of the, accident. The driver of the van, by all accounts, was not looking m the direction o£ the crossing, and the crossing keeper failed to attract hisattentibn^intil it was too late, me van being- covered prevented the occupants from seeiog the tram. David Kerr.deceaseo* was highly respected by all who knew£himj Miss Morrall was also^mnchbeHTOd by her friends, and thedeepest iy apathy is felt at Rangiora X • P HW° Ba ddenly bereaved of their children*