SHOCKING COACH ACCIDENT IN ADELAIDE.
A terrible coach accident happened on Belair Hill late on Monday night. The employees of Marshall and Co., drapers, had been to a picnic at Coromandel Valley. A.U thecoaches, with the exception of the lastone, leached the city safely. It appeal's that the lastone, afivc-horse coach, was coming down the hill at a walking pace when the swingletree touched a post about two feet from the fence, causing the hovses to take fricrht. Tho coach collided with the fence and then turned two or three somerpaults down the side of the hill and was stopped in ifcs progress by a ti'ee. William Biowning, aged 22, employed byCf. audß. WolisandCo., who accompanied his brother Walter, was crushed by the coach and died soon after. The driver, a man named Lambert, aged 32, a widower with two children, sustained a compound fracture on both legs and died on Tuesday. He was an exceedingly steady man, and had been in tho employ of Hill and Co. for 15 or 16 years. There were 35 passengers on the coach, and of these 20 wercmoie or less seriously injured. Miss Lucy Machin, a delicate girl, is in a critical state.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 333, 12 January 1889, Page 6
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200SHOCKING COACH ACCIDENT IN ADELAIDE. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 333, 12 January 1889, Page 6
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