Fatal Coach Accident.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9479, 5 February 1907, Page 1

Fatal Coach Accident.

Hy Telegraph.

('leyinoutli, February 4. Quite- a sensation was caused in town yesterday when woul was received that one of tiie Cliiistcliurc-li-Oiira coaches had capsized, and the infant son of Mr and Mrs Scott had been killed and the other passengers injured. As 80 passengers Jeft in the morning by train, the relatives were eagerly seeking news, but none of an authentic nature could be obtained. Word was received that a special train would arrive from Otira at- 9.30. and the station was lined with people. It was found that only Mrs Scott. Miss Kellar. and the dead ehiid were piuiscngers. the others in the eon h prucec-diiig to Christehurch by special coach. .Miss Keliar, on being interviewed. stated that the passengers were Mrs and Miss Condon, Miss Museen, Mrs Schaef and child, Mr Myers, Mrs Scott and child. .Miss Kellar, Mr* Davis, and Mr and Mrs 1 lamer. The passengers had just taken their seats on the coach after climbing the Otira Gorge, when the coach start, eel down hill. They rounded the lirst turn safely, but at the second the king-bolt broke, and the coach capsized. Tlte horses were going very fast. All the passengers wrie thrown out of the coach except Mrs Scott, who clung to the coach and held her child. She got caught, and was elragged illUy 200 yards, the child getting the back of its head knocked in. Mts Scott was badly injured internally. The coach broke right in half, and the* horses.bolted with part of the coach. The driver (S. Ka-st-gate) escaped without injury. The passengers were more or less bruised, but not seriously, and were able to proceed on their journey. .Mrs Scott and the little dead child were conveyed from the station to Mrs Kellar's on a stretcher. The sad affair has cast quite a gloom over the town. The infant was five months old. An inquest will be held to-day.