FATAL COACHING ACCIDENT.
t PER PRESS ASSOCIATION,) Hokitika, April 25. A, disastrous, coach accident. o.oau,rred between this’ pjao.e aiyl Rqniara about midday. Cameron's mail coach was nearing Ku'tnara, and when going down Bandy’s Hill the break would not work. The coach gained a groat impetus, and the horses were sent into a gallop when near the bottom of the hill. The coach oapsizod agAiust the fence, the kingbolt jumped out, and the horses galloped into Kurnara with the forewheels, There were 16 paoseugers
on the coach, all more or less injured. A young man named William White, of Greymouth, had his leg broken in three places, his arm broken, and he received other internal injuries. He died this afternoon in great pain. Constable Bennett was injured about the legs and body. It is believed he has two ribs broken ; Miss Benyon has a rib broken; Galbraith,' a jockey, has the small bone of his wrist broken ; Taylor, the driver, had hi 3 chest strained and is injured internally. All the others are more or less hurt, though not seriously. The coach was smashed to pieces. Tulley, a runner of the West Coast Times, was on the top seat of the coach with two little girls. He threw them into the bushes as the coach was going down, and they escaped uninjured. He had no time to save himself, and is much bruised.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 896, 3 May 1889, Page 27
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