CRUSHED UNDER A TRAM.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 192, 18 September 1914, Page 10

CRUSHED UNDER A TRAM.

CADET BADLY INJURED. Yesterday afternoon a number of the High School Cadets went but to Bedcliffs for rifle practice, and when returning on a car with two trailers attached, at about 5.:>0 in the evening, the officer ir. command gave instructions that the Cadets were to assemble in the Square ■.to deliver up their rifles, and the conductor of the car was informed that the car should go right througn without stopping. An order was given that no Cadets should leave the cats at any point on the way to the Square. One of the Cadets, B. Perrean, a boy of nearly 14 years of age, residing in Fitzgerald Avenue, was evidently aware of this order, but desired to alight from the car hear his home, and so jumped from the first trailer when it was about 60 yards past the corner of Fitzgerald Avenue. .He must have jumped the wrong way, for, instead of landing out in the road, he fell under the rear trailer, and had one of his legs so badly crushed that, on his removal to the hospital, it was found necessary to amputate it. Immediately the accident happened first-aid was rendered by the motormau and conductor, and, as a motor-car was near by, the boy was taken straightway to the hospital. He was reported to be progressing favourably this morning, though, of course, suffering from shock.