TRAMWAY ACCIDENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLV, Issue 267, 28 December 1903, Page 2

TRAMWAY ACCIDENTS.

«— ' frj THE AUCKLAND FATALITY. LIST OF INJUItED. (Per Press Association). AUCKLAND, De<S. 'W Those severely injured in the tram accident are Joseph James CamptfiT of Reston Road, Mount R3»W scalp wound ami collar-bone toroi ken ; Hiss Sophie Caley, 'broken leg • Mr Alfred Caley, Walbl, injuredfoot and bruised; Mrs Alfred Caley legs crushed; Miss Eastrfate/Mount Eden, wrist broken and leg in/iuidl • Mrs Page, Kingsland store, noae broken; Mm Hill, Kingsland, ciitt on the head; Miss Lizzie Morrow, Kingeland, teeth knocked out and lip cut; Mr John ~Clark, W«»ganui, visiting his parenU ' at Kingsland, concussion of the brain • Mrs John Clark, Wangsjnri,- Up* and face cut and badly bruised ; Mr William Hewlett, heud and face injured, teeth knocked out, and general shock; Mrs Mcßride (ilea Miss Beedel) injured in the legs and back; Mr Earnest Colson, land agent, broken jaw, gash on the check and bruises; Mrs PXvte of Kingsland, dislocated thigh '• Miss Emmie Hill, Kingßland, nosi broken; Mrs John Coyle Mount Albert, broken rib, severely' bruised and shaken ; Mr Cyril looker, View Avenue, Mount lEden, concuaaldti of the brain. .i. U > »**"»< «U Friday moral*, that the real seHousnwfe of "Che casualty became, known. Then, instead at one' fatality, ft tirnspired that two others of the: injured had died, ' and that others" were In » critical condition. The t'tfeet' «•«* again thronged wrtih eager'«rbuj6a\o» people discussing the cataitrSpne the exeiftiemenfc eurrence being hiiuxirestiJd Tiy many improbable arid exaggerated stories told of the number o* JaWtifJes while persons were n^ip^ T 2l'g|j. led or fatally. hurt wßd subsequently proved to*e perfectly safe. ' it is stated that riAt i>n the scene of the collision a man vhoWae astir earjy gathered up no leas' than sixteen hatpins, the .inference beififf that the ladies "either took their■ jGS oft or,(more profbatily) bad / ihwn torn off their heads in the crush la get away from ihe threatening pJenl. On the whole, they were a brave lot of people, They mostly behaved splendidly in their helplessness;', and after tbe smash there was never a murmur ; but many, devout expressions of the thankfulness that the injuries sustained had not been worse. FATALITY AT DUNEDIN. DUNBDtN, Dec? 27. Tho electric cars have been i>ro« ductive of two accidents, but they are not serious. J. A. Richanlfon, a conductor, overlooking jthe' structions agajnst parsing afong on the side on whidh- are posts carrying the electric wires, was struck by a post yesterday morning; but is rapidly recovering from the ef. lects. To-day Fred. Oslen, another conductor, fell from a car, but nppears' to have escaped serious' injury. On the horse-tram cars a fatal accident occurred. George 4uld, an aid ago pensioner, was stepping off a car at the corner of Albany Bi., when he fell and was so injured that ho died. He was a married man.