FATAL ACCIDENT ON TURAKINA HILL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9938, 15 January 1900, Page 2

FATAL ACCIDENT ON TURAKINA HILL.

A SPRING TRAP OVKRTUBI^ED. - ' 'HE OCCUPANTS THRO Wit/ OVEft AN EMBANKMENT/ . LITTL^ GIRL SUCCTAOBS TO'HEBINJURIES. F OTHER OCCUPANTS /SEVERELY - SHAKEN. 1 , (By Telegraph. — Sp'eeia; to HzbJllv.) MABTON, January 15. A bad smash-up took } ilaco lost night' ' ,1 8 o'clock on the Wa igaehu side of ho Turakina Hili, Asj inng-trap, cohaining Mr Jerry Mor? in, his three laughters, and two little children of Mr Joriald Cameron, Fordel 1, were prccipiated over tho Bide, of « steep embanlcncnt. Tho occupants i4ero thrown out/ . he trap turning over iniits descent. For- , • :unately some other pc/rsons were pass- ' ng at tho time, and \vi» re able to render , ' i&sistancc. / _. < \ All were found to lin/'e sustained morel! >r less severe injuries, trith the exception '}, sf tho Cameron childiren, who got Off ightly. / > h r. It was found that fthe worn) injuries I were received by a little girl named,'"; iloran, aged 15, wliol was evidently snf- - ; iering fearful agony, {and could ndtoaan] - to bo moved. / > A ' ' Further assistance some came to hind L; trom Wangaehu and Turakina, arid !all ' ' were taken up the stjeep bank on to pc ■ '- road. A stretcher had to be improvised,," \ to carry the little siifferer, -upon which,-)? iho was carried to X^ lra ki' ! *a- * *. ' \ - '' i~ The others, wtioyiad only received a ! "^ very severe shaking, were driven to^.- ~, rurakinrv by Mr MStchell, of th«- But-, t '< land Hotel, Wanganui, who promptly „"" , responded to the culf for assistance from.''" rurajjuia, whore li^left his -friends who '? ho was driving through. . ; . i '-'n Medical assiatanfe was summoned '-, from Marton as speedily as possible/ Irat picanwhile the girl succumbed to hep in- ' juries. ~ " i - '• „ ' i ,' At about midnight,, when Dr Tyther- _-. Idgo subsequently arrived, he foundftheX/ ■ Bame to be of a fearful nature, Jiet ish'egfe ,-' aud body being terribly crushed. Had, he •-,] arrived any earlier he could 3»vc -done .- nothing to save her. . j '. '„ Of the others, Mrs Tyson, who is on. - a visit to her parents from NapierV 'be- > ing -ar Moran's eldest daughter, • ceived a most severe shaking. ", •" Greatest sympathy will be eyiiieecUfor " ,' Mr and Mrs Moran in their sad bereave-;'^.', ment, the former being a well-knowa j.. ganger on the permanent way near Tu/ai-. V kina. The child was a particularly, • bright and promising one. • -I,' The horse, belonging to Mr A. Me-.-".':. Donald, of the Bon Nevis Hotel, .Tura- , p kina, had its fetlock broken, and £ probably bo destroyed. The' trap, , was % *'* not much injured. ."' - :r^i' f 'M Major lloss, coroner, holds an inqneati^ at Turakina at 2 o'clock to-day. -' «^i" ",