ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 33, 13 June 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

A TRAM ACCIDENT. [Per Press Association.] Auckland, June 12. A tram accident occurred in Ponsonby about 10.15 to-night. A car ran into a dray, and carried it along the line for some distance and pinned it against a pole. The dray was smashed to pieces and the front of the cai considerably damaged. The driver oi the dray, Hugh Bremmer, aged 50, received a broken shoulder blade, and was conveyed to the hospital unconscious. Motorman Christmas received a slight injury to his leg, and wa: unable to drive the car to the shed The pasengers were shaken. / / KILLED BY A BUSH ENGINE. Auckland, June 12. The police have received information to-night, from Kare Rare, on the West Coast, that a man named Farrellf had been killed by a bush engine.

FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT. Timaru, June 12. Vivian Coira, aged 21 years, a postal employee residing at Terauka, was riding a motor-cycle with a side-car attached, in which E. Horgan rode. They were crossing the railway line in Temuka when the first northward express caught them and struck the hind wheel of the cycle. Horgan scrambled out of the w r ay with a bruised knee, but Coira had one leg cut off and the other leg and both arms broken. He died shortly after his removal to a private hospital. Deceased was a very popular young man, and was a son of Peter Coira, well known for years as a hotelkeeper, and his death caused a great shock in Temuka. A CHILD’S DEATH. Christchurch, June 12. Annie Chapman, aged four years and a_half, died as the result of injuries: received at her parent’s residence in Sydenham this afternoon Some timber fell on the child, and sin expired before a doctor arrivd.