TRAMWAY ACCIDENT IN WELLINGTON.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8434, 4 May 1907, Page 5

TRAMWAY ACCIDENT IN WELLINGTON.

CAR RUNS OVER AN EMBANKMENT.

A WOMAN KILLED. THREE MEN INJURED. By Telegraph —Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 3. Ajserious accident occurred on the Brooklyn section of the city tramway, this k evening, resulting in the death ofjMrs Bell, of Murchison, and the infliction cf injuries on her husband, Thomas Bell, the motorman (John Rae), and the conductor (Arthur Perkins). The Brooklyn line leaves Upper Willis Street at the foot of Nairn Street, and proceeds over a sharp incline to the suburban area on the. hill-top southward of the city. While descending .this incline'one of the big new palace cars left the. track at a point near the foot of Nairn Street plantation, and after travelling about fifteen yards, in the course of which the under carriage was ripped off, it toppled over the embankment, which at this point is about five feet in height. Mrs Bell was, it is supposed from the nature of her injuries, killed outright, but it was over an hour before her body could be taken from under the car, which is of great weight, and could only be shifted by the use of powerful jacks. Her husband was slightly injured, and was removed to a neighbouring house. Rae and Perkins were taken to the Hospital suffering from cuts and contusions. Mr and Mrs Bell were on a holiday, and were returning to their home from Christchurch arid other places in the South. They had taken a trip in the car to view the city from the Brooklyn heights. For some time after the Brooklyn section was opened for traffic the City Council only had a permit to run. what are known as box cars, the lightest cars on the city tracks, up this incline, and only twenty-four people were allowed to ride each trip. The traffic, however, increased so much that the Public Works Department lately, after leaking tests, gave a permit for heavier cars to run on the section. cars, one of which came to grief, each carry sixty passengers. How the mishap occurred is not known, but it is supposed that the car ran away from the brakes.