TRAM MISHAP AT CHRISTCHURCH.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 86, 14 April 1903, Page 2

TRAM MISHAP AT CHRISTCHURCH.

Christchorch, April 12.

A tram accident occurred ©n the Ferry Road line last evening by which a number of persons were more or less injured. The steam tram from Christchurch to Sumner and the horse trara from Woolston to Christchurch should have passed each other at a siding near the Caversham Hotel, but, as the horse tram was not there, the steam tram, without waiting, went on, and a collision occurred some hundred yards further down the line. It is said the driver of the horse car rang his bell continuously but without attracting notice, the driver of the engine being engaged in stoking his fire. Seeing a collision was imminent, he pulled his horses off the line, but one received such severe injuries tint it bhortly afterwards died.

Five persons were injured. The most serious case is that of a small boy, son of Mrs Malcolm, of Grafton Street, who is suffering from concussion of the brain. Mrs Buchanan, of Woolston, received a nasty injury to her eye and her baby was somewhat bruised, though not severely. A man named Thomas Parsons received some injury to his knee. Mrs Turner sustained a bad cut on the side of the head. Several other people on both trams were more or less bruised.