TOBOGGAN CRASH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18491, 30 August 1923, Page 8

TOBOGGAN CRASH.

BOLT ON !CE SLOPE. SYDNEY MAN'S INJURIES.- .';.- fFROM OUB OWN COKBJSSFONDENT.J J SYDNEY, An*., 23.-' Terrible injuries were sustained by tit* Horace* I». Chambers, a member of a well-known city business firm, at Mount," Kosciusko, in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, and one of the most'" popular of the State's tourist resorts. xp;;';f| On the day that he arrived at Kosciusko, . : : along with a party from Sydney, .Mr. - Chambers went tobogganing;, under coudi- ". tdons ' which would have tested skilled . > men at the game, for although Kosciusko i was raider a great blanket of snow, libera i had not been a fall for a fortnight.. Ih&v'. ; | j : surface, as- a " result,, was :' frozen * into, i ice. • * ,• On. this..-Mr.! Chambers- made ..;aj| ::f grand slide,- which ended in shocking is- ■:■:■'; juries. ' '■■■■,'..-, ! Three ladies accepted Mr .Chambers' , 'invitation to a toboggan slide.' It was » I joyful party that started, amidst ' merry : laughter, down : a glazed incline'' 1 |3|||§| degrees. It '.'"'was; notl long before . the "' toboggan bolted. Two of.the ladies wer« shot out as the toboggan ' made " its vHHS$£| flight downhill, and were thrown clear; and unhurt, except for a few bruises. t The toboggan swopt on, with its two remain- r tag helpless passengers, Mr. Chambers . and 'one-'of the ladies. It was : travelling at the break-neck "speed of 60 miles sti hour, when, ordinarily, it should haw reached a level place which retards th* speed of the toboggans before they ajsk« their final shoot down to the lake. Then the;: toboggan'; drashed violently into the corner of the power house. $jw lady, •: except for a few;.- bruises, escaped; i injury. , But - when Mr. Chambers 'vti'Mgi: picked up, the bone of his right shin hid penetrated his underwear, his trousettj[V,||r" and his putty, and was protruding t«a s or three inches. Several teeth r were missing, his i. upper jaw was fractured, .'-. his nasal bone was broken. He suffered ;. from internal injuries as well. „ . • • v, In an impromptu ambulance, and w$V the temperature 15 degrees below freezing point, Mr. Chalmers started out in ; ioi»|#i. condition, attended by his wife, for I th« long journey to Cooma, especially trying. for a man' nearly 60. For two mUesf* ■ i had to be carried on a snow sledge, being then transferred to a motor-car. For thres : - . hours - the ! doctors operated on him.' "H« is how progressing favourably,'thanks in some ; measure to a stamina which enabled him > to '. crack• ■ jokes ; .; withV'tM . doctor. M\ • It is the r end of tobogganing on% 6 . "grand slam" until snow falls, and until; experts have proved it safe for sport*', ;