PERISHED IN FLAMES

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 August 1946, Page 3

PERISHED IN FLAMES

THREE MEN TRAPPED IN BURNING CAR ; CRASH INTO POWER POLE (P.A.) INVERCARGILL, August 4. Two men were incinerated when a car, travelling south to Invercargill, overturned hear Edehdale at 6 o’clock yesterday morning, and one of three other men admitted to the Southland Hospital died to-day. The victims were:— KILLED. Les Palmer, of 7 Duncan street, Dunedin. Stanley Bardwell, aged 35, address hot stated. DIED. HOrbfert kitchener Wilson, aged 29, of 27 Glenelg street; Dunedin; burns to the hands and face, shock. INJURED. Charles Robert Wilson; aged 35, of Main road, Tomahawk; burns to the hands and fate, shock. Frank Wheeler, aged 28, of 34 Main North road, Dunedin; abrasions and shock. The condition of the injured men was reported to-night to be satisfactory. The car, belonging to Victory Taxis, Dunedin, was negotiating ’ the Bryclone Hill, a small incline on the main Invercargill-Gore highway,-when it hit a power pole, overturned, and caught fire. Nearby residents say the car struck a ditch on the roadside, overturned, and pinned the occupants underneath and then went on fire. Rescue efforts were extremely difficult. PEDESTRIAN STRUCK BY BUS (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Aug. 4. Fatal head injuries were suffered by a man when he was struck by a bus on the Great North road on Saturday night. He was Fenton Allan Hyland, aged 47, married, of Point Chevalier. YOUNG BOY’SDEATH FROM INJURIES (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 5. A boy aged five years, Leonard Graham Taylor, of 11 Cardogan. street, Sydenham, was struck by a motor-car in Burlington street at 2.45 I p.m. oh Saturday, and died in the Christchurch Public Hospital early yesterday morning.