FATAL STREET ACCIDENT IN AUCKLAND.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 576, 29 November 1897, Page 2

FATAL STREET ACCIDENT IN AUCKLAND.

A Melbourne Lady KilledBy Telegraph—Per Press Association Aucli.and, November 26. The horses in one of Patterson’s 'buses, running from Lake Takapuna this evening, bolted, and ran into a water trough opposite the Devonport Borough Council Chambers and capsized. A Melbourne lady named Mrs Jas. Tidey was killed, the ’bus falling on her chest. Her daughter escaped, but the driver was hurt, and another passenger had his shoulder dislocal ed. Later.

Later particulars of the ’bus accident show that the horses bolted at the North Shore Gasworks, but the driver pulled them up at the Takapuna racecourse, and all the local passengers left the bus, but the tourists remained, although asked by the other passengers to come out. Mrs Tidey said she was not afraid of horses. Tho animals bolted again near the Devonport Wharf. The 'bus in capsizing fell oil Mrs Tidey. She remained conscious on being got out from under the ’bus, but died in ten minutes.

Miss T. Tidey was also got out from underneath the 'bus, but was unhurt.

Mr Benjamin Hough, a Now York tourist, had his shoulder dislocated, and Mr De Beer, from Melbourne, escaped unhurt. The driver, Mr Jas McCreay, was hurt about the knee. He had tho brake down, but the horses took charge. He tried to turn them into the Beach road, but they swerved suddenly and went into a horse trough, all three horses coining down and the 'bus running upon their bodies.

Mrs Tidey, who was on a visit to Auckland, intended to go last Thursday to her brother at New Plymouth, but remained over to see the Ladies' Benevolent Society’s floral fete at Ellerslie, to be hold to-morrow.