IN A BURNING COACH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7567, 20 February 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

IN A BURNING COACH.

TERRIBLE TERMINATION OF A RIDE. A serious accident recently happened to a Bur lington coaching party, by which one woman was terribly injured and several other persons were bruised. A family party started in a tally-ho coach from Burlington early in the evening for a ride to a neighbouring town. Inside the coach were Mrs. Alexander Miller, her mother Mrs. Revar ; her two Bisters, and two small children. The coacb was driven by Mr. Miller. The night was very dark, and Mrs. Revar carried a kerosene lantern in her lap. While passing the Baxter Farm on the Williated Road, the coach ran into the ditch and was upset, breaking the lantern and scattering the burning oil over the occupants of the vehicle. The accident caused great consternation, the flames spreading to the trimmings of the coach and to the clothing of the terrified women and children, whose screams and efforts to escape from the burning coach made the scene a terrible one. By dint of hard work the flames were subdued and the women and children were drawn out from the wreck. Mrs. Revar was found to be shockingly burned, the whole left side of her body being so badly injured by the flames as to cause the skin to drop off. Her recovery is doubtful. The other occupants of the coach were more or less seriously burned and bruised, but none of them were dangerously injured.