SERIOUS ACCIDENT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9, 4 September 1912, Page 6

SERIOUS ACCIDENT.

RAILWAY TRUCK OVERTURNS. FIVE PEOPLE BADLY HURT. (Per Press Association.) Auckland, September 3. A serious accident occurred on the Tarihgarautu train to-day. A truck containing passengers was overturned through a collision with pigs on the lino. Five people were seriously injured, and several slightly hurt. The names of the injured are: Miss Han by

(injured in the hack), Rev. Hanby (broken log), Airs Burn Bell (broken wrist), Mr Vincc (broken leg and serious internal injuries), and Mr Parker (badly cut on tho head). Mrs Hanl)j, Miss McFarland, and Mr A. Cook escaped with a few scratches and bruises. The injured people were brought into Taumaranui this even-

ing- T , Later. Herbert Lade, a butcher’s assistant, who was injured in the Taringamutu accident, died on the way to the hospital. The Rev. Mr Hanby, who had his left leg broken., will ..probably lose the limb. Latest. Further particulars cf the accident show that about 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon a party was being taken through some of the Taringamotu Sawmilling Company’s bush on the company’s tramway. When nearing the foot of a. steep grade some wild pigs ran across the lino but failed to clear, and, a' collision, ensuing, one truck containing passengers overturned. A number of the travellers were thrown The youth Lade, who died before reaching the hospital, was about 20 years of ago and a native of Scotsdale, Tasmania, where his parents reside.

The Rev. Mr Hanby (toad Ins leg broken, sprained his ankle, and was considerably crushed about the chest Sister MeFarlane, w3io was on the train at the time of the mishap, rendered first aid until medical assistance was obtained. The . injured were brought to Frankton by the Mam Trunk express. Lade died on the tram t 1.12 a.m.