A SHOCKING TRAMCAR ACCIDENT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1151, 22 September 1883, Page 1

A SHOCKING TRAMCAR ACCIDENT.

A: Homo paper, dared 7th-,July gays : A terrible trnnicar'accidenthappened at Huddersiield on Tue'daysafteipitidCiu; f As a'steimiitriitn which left JDiridtey,iasuburb of HurJdersfield, at half-past two o'clock, was coming down an incline,'it lis stated that the brake did; not actaridtbe engine gained great speed*-?,-; On Stunning into St George's Square the car; was;thrown completely over. Several inside passengers, who saw that the catastrophe must occur, attempted to • escape % breaking through the side windows; and, unfortunately, the car falling on the same aide, crushed two women very badly;; An ■■ eye witnqs|!Bays his attention /was first) drawn? tortile car by se.eiDg people, dropoff and, fall jp*.the road. These were passengers'wlio'/keeiDg that an accident was inevitable,! preferred to tlirow themselves;off.rather than to remain in so dangerous a position. Several female passengers were'on' L the outside of the car, and their; were frightful.; ; -At least jthreo of the women had babies, and, one of the latter was instantly 1 killed thrown of?. The father and mother of the infanTwere both dreadfully'injured, A*s the?eE|ine kept on the metais the car did not*com- ; pletely overturn but ' remained' a few inches ; from the ground. Thqse inside were dw\n out, as they would rio'ts remain quiet/vThe "scehe a,t the infirmary was ''mOk',;li,ear : tVehdipgv;';, Hundreds of people surrounded the ' building, all anxious to know if any friends bad been oil 'the car. ~ln several'cases the doctors gave up all hopes of the, patients' recovery the infant, a''woman'ri6t tbetii identified : : died,;,atAthe,i lnfirmary,.-and.[Mr Rowland ; .Jlill,, manufacturer, Lindley, , who was an 1 outside passenger; was 'not'' expected to survives'< In* nearly everJy case the injuries were on the'head, and therefore the more serious. Some of the patients'sufferings were so intense that the assistance/of the police i ha'd ! to be. prociire'd to hold them down. Opinions had been expressed that on so steep a gradient an accid'ent"wa t J likely to happen. As soon as the driver realised the state of affairs he rang the alarm bell most energetically, and those of the passengers i who; were not quite panic stricken set about seeing to their own safety. On the Tuesday following the accident five deaths had occurred as the result,of the; accident, named Moon first' died,' its fathe| a|terwards succumbed, and its mothdr ""was lying unconscious, •, Dan.iel [Taylor, rug manufacturer, who was insensible when !. admitted : to the hospital, ..Isabella. (sfpodhouse, and Sarah,play orfOlegg also died. Tn addition to these deaths, 25 'persons were more or less severely injured. Two addjtfopaj deaths took place day night,'viz., those of Mr EOwlaiid Hill, manufacturer, Lindley, and Mary Shaw, shoemaker's wife, Thornhill street, Lindley:. \Theafi?n,ak,ea,total l p t £,6fven. t deaths.