A SENSATIONAL RUNAWAY

Evening Star, Issue 14526, 30 November 1910, Page 6

A SENSATIONAL RUNAWAY

IN STUART STREET. A sensational runaway caused excitement in the Octagon at 12.30 to-day. A twohorse express, laden with timber, was seen to bo coining down Upper Stuart street at a furious pace, with tho driver (a youth) making vain attempts to check his horses’ maddened career. At the coiner opposite Panama House the vehicle collided with a verandah [lost, which was shifted from its position. This failed to check ihe frightened animals, who continued on their way down Stuart street, and tho onlookers expected every moment to see the driver thrown out. .lust below St. Paul's Cathedral the end came, a wheel rolling oil, and next instant tho horses came downy and the express turned over on top of the unfortunate young man. Willing hands lifted the much-damaged vehicle and extricated tho driver, who laid received two painful and .severe wounds, one over the temple and the other on the knee. A ■motor cur immediately pulled up and conveyed tho young man, whose name is William Burntier, to the hospital. The worst injury is that to the knee. Bamber is twenty cue years of age, and employed as an exp'essinait by Mr A. Foord. He lives'in Council street, St. Kildn. Had the wheel of tiio express not come off Bamber would pro bahly have been killed, for lie could never have swung the hoises rounl into 1 1 c Octagon, and the express would have clashed into the railings at Burns’s statue.