ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15923, 8 May 1912, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

TRAIN WRECKED. CONFEDERATE 'VETERANS KILLED. United Pices Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. VANCOUVER, May 6. At New Orleans a special train, carrying Confederate veterans to a reunion at Macon, was wrecked. Four Confederates were killed and four passengers were mortally injured. The engine and five coaches were derailed and overturned. TRAMCARS IN COLLISION. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, May i. Two trams collided going up Wellesley Street,- which is a fairly steep grade, this evening, the motorman or the foremost car .sustaining very severe cuts on the face. Aparently a short circuit occurred in the control-box of the loading car, and it commenced to run back. Motorman Saunders was unable to handle the brakes in the forward portion of the car through an electrical blase, and promptly ran to the rear and applied the brakes. A collision, however, was inevitable, and both cars were badly damaged, Saunders being injured as stated. His promptitude in a plying the brakes prevented a more serious accident, as both the cars weie filled with passengers,_ all of whom were thrown from their seats by the impact.

[Per Press Association.] • AUCKLAND, May i. The trucks on a bush tramway at Mnnunui collided with a tree on the line and were piled up. A man named Kirkton was injured, sustaining a fracture of the thigh, a crushed hand and cuts on the head. He was removed to Taumaruuui Hospital. WAIPAW A, May A Maori man and woman were killed this afternoon by a motor-car capsizing. DUNEDIN, Mav 7.

Simon Weatherall, who war, seriously injured in Craig’s coal mine at Coal Creek, beyond Roxburgh, on Friday, died in the hospital to-night. Death was due to dislocation of the spine-