ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 102, 27 October 1900, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FATAL OCCUREENCE AT DUNEDIN. A RUNAWAY TRAMCAR. IBX TKUCUIIAI'H — I'ItKSS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, This Day. While the 9.30 Roslyn car was on its way to town this morning the gripper failed to catch the rope, and the efforts of the lineman, to stop the car were unavailing, owing to the greasy state of the rails consequent on the rain. The car sped like lightning down the- track, is me passengers were on board, one of whom, a boy, jumped off, ' and escaped with slight bruises. When opposite the Catholic Cathedral a Chinaman named Kin. Hey is believed to have jumped off, was thrown against the iron fence and killed, a piece of bone seven inches long being knocked out of the front' of his fovehcad. Opposite the Shamrock Hotel the car turned over, with the passengers undernet»i. Three of the most severely injured were removed to the hospital. They are— Alexandria Matheson, who sustained injuries to tne back, spine, and nhest, and will probably recover ; Kathleen Moore, her niece, who is unconscious, suffering from slight concussion of the brain ; Lay Ling, suffering from concussion of the brain, with scalp wound and general shock to the system. ASHBURTON, This Day. On. Thursday afternoon some youths gathering firewood from the bod of the Rakaia, some six of seven miles below the bridge, found the body of an elderly man under a blanket. There were no papors on the body. Constable StanI ley brought the body lo town. No one about heie .appears £o have known the cle- , ceased, who wore an iron instrument on ono leg. ' *■