ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15901, 12 April 1912, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FATAL COLLISION ON A HILL.

NINE ’BUS PASSENGERS KILLED. TJmted Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 10. Two motor ’buses collided on a hill at Oporto, Portugal. One was hurled over a precipice. Nine passengers wore killed outright, and seven of those injured are in a critical condition. FISHERS DROWNED. A GISBORNE FATALITY. rPEit Press Association.] GISBORNE, April 11. A. man whose name is unknown, and two bovs, Gordon Brown, aged fourteen, and Fred Allen, aged fifteen, were swent off tli,e groyne at the entrance to the river while fishing this morning. The man disappeared at once and was not scon again. Allen was saved, life-lines being thrown, which ho grasped. Desperate attempts were made to save Brown. Hcuirt Douglas, a dredge hand, jumped into the water, caught.the boy am held him un for ten minutes, but had to lot<ro' owing to the force of the seas. and°tne boy was . drGwncc with difficulty regaining the pier. A man named Goatley, who had ocen employed as wharf labourer, is missing from the Strand Cafe been staying, and as it mornlie intended going fehinS iug it is almost the™, known victim of tlie cit ”• i + at tho groyne. Goatley is PP have come from Melbourne and had been in Gisborne about fi’

[Per Press Association.] L TIMARU, Apnl 11In order to avoid a coUtoion vvicli a gig at a street crossing m a " of the town this afternoon, the driver of a motor-car turned it to' round the corner wiHi 3C d and ono of tho hind wheels c<ma the car fell on its side, thr^.U^ o \ tho driver and four m p] . fch ” women passengers. Tlie. car » less hit the gig. hut behind, ant it forward and capsized * , of the car had his collarbone and more ribs broken. His sister D _ . , r K. Ardagli, daughter of the,jf-Offered of tho Commercial Hotel, both . r.ovorolv from concussion and 1 Tho other occupants of the car « *' n with scratches and bruises. I* l in the gig, Mr P. Butler, struck tne kerb with his head when he frt ‘ was cut about the face, and later ed symptoms of skull fracture. , ambulance men did good servico o doctors arrived in removing tne R. tients. three of them to the h° s P : A tall hedgo at the corner probably . something to do in bringing about accident.