Motor Car Fatality.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7952, 16 October 1905, Page 4

Motor Car Fatality.

Mr Vinson Walsh, aged eif.htHMs, the eldest sou of Mr Thomas S. i Walsh, the American "Mining King," who is a friend of the King of the Belgians, was killed on \ug:i.U 20 jin the worst automobile accident that has ever occurred at .Newport. Mi Walsh, who has bCiii fined for eijci'ssive speed on several occasions, [was driving, with a French chauffeur beside him, a 10 horsepower Mercedes car. lie was taking his sister, Aliss Kvrlyn Walsh, Mrs James L. Kernuchan, Mr Herbert Pell, jmi., aid Messrs Harryson, Charles M. Oelrichs, and Home to a luncheon Si veil by Mrs Clement Moore, and going at forty miles an hour. Suddenly he lost the lyre of the rear light wheel, and, making a curve, I broke through the side railing of a bridge over a creek, the car overturning! and 'imprisoning the tccuiianlt in the water. Several men iiiustentd to t,iie rescue, otherwise, owing lo the weight of the machine, ihe motorists mii>hl have hern drownt ed n the shallow Water. Mr Walsh was removed to tlie hospital, but he died without rteovering consciousness. Miss Kvelyn Walsh had her right thigh fractured ; Mrs Kerno- ' h"H s leg was broken in two place* ■ and Mi IVII and Mi' Oelrichs were bruised.