TRAM COLLISION

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1250, 14 February 1905, Page 2

TRAM COLLISION

AT AUGKLANO. ' Several Passenqers Serriously Injured , v ' * A WOMAN KILLED. ' By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, this day. if A thim accident occurred in Symonds* street last night. A 'bus and tram were both on their way to town, when the 'bus horses sworvcd across the tram line. The tram dashed into tho vehicle, and almost i smashed it to pieces, tho horses being ,' 'jjMned about forty yards along the line 1 Several passengers on tho 'bus were badly injured, and one woman (Mrs Foster, o I'onsonby) had her skull fractured, and , died shortly afterwards, Tbo driver of ' ' the 'bus states that owing to repairs to the road he hnd to take tlio tram line, but looked to see if thctrar- ■• 'coming before hn did so. Ho was crosa.u,, down the line . wbon the co'lision happened, and was . driving three horses, There were.six passengers on the 'bus..

LATER PARTICULARS NAMES OF THE INJURED LADY HURLED UNDER THE CAR " ! ! - GETd TERRIBLY MANGLED SERIOUS INJURIES TO OTHERS A PATHETIC SCENE By Telegraph.—Press Association. ; Auckland, this day. Thoso injured by the collision were : Miss Pearl Foster, aged 3 years. Mj?s Gladys Foster, aged' 9 years,' Mrs W, Hill. Miss Marion Hill, aged 9 years. Miss Jessie Hill, aged 7 years. Miss Anna Anderson, Mr William Young. j Peter Ganloy (the driver). Mrs Lily Fosor, who resided in Pioton. street, Ponsonby, was. hurled undor the I car. She was shockingly mangled. Miss Anna Anderson, a young lady passenger, wns in tho 'bus. She was seated in front o( tho ill»fated.Mw Foster, who was with her two little daughters (Gladys, aged nine, and Pearl,' aged three), In front of Miss Anderson sat Mrs Hill,*t wife of Herbert Hill, Norfolk-street, Ponsonby, With her were her two little girls (Marion, aged nine, and Jessie, aged 7), All except Miss Auderson and William Young (who was on the box seat) appear* ed to havo been thrown clear of the tramlines, 1 Mrs Hill sustained slight injuries to one *f her legs and inside her head, No Mnes' were broken, but she was very badly shaken, and suffered acutely from nervous shock.

Her daughter Mavioa esuaped with no>* thing worse than a severs shaking. Miss Jessie Hill was less fortunate. She was badly injured the right 'side of the head. The wound was bleeding profusely. She was also bruised about the knees, iu one of which was a deep cut. Little Pearl Foslqr had ono toco broken. The bone was so badly fraetiued that an extremely difficult operation was necessary, and the surgeons regard her case with, some misgivings,

- Her elder Bister, Gladys, had one of her logs injured, and she was badly knooked about.

°The children were in dreadful distress when their pitiful cries for their mother brought no response, Mr. Youug and the driver were carried along with the wreckage of the 'bus. .>:. The former was injured about the- head and legs, which were seriously cut about,; The 'bus driver (Ganley), it is 'feared, has sustained internal injuries,'besides several ribs broken, and he is badly lacerated about the face, The precise extent of his internal injuries are not definitely ascertained.