SERIOUS TRAMWAY ACCIDENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2071, 4 May 1907, Page 3

SERIOUS TRAMWAY ACCIDENT.

A 'WOMAN killed. * " r Press Association. g WELLINGTON, last niglit. A serious accident occurred on the -. Brooklyn section of the city tram- - wavs this evening, resulting in the ] death of Mrs.' Bell, of Murchison, , and the infliction of injuries on liet , husband, Mr. Tlios. Bell, the motorman, John Jiao, and the conductor. Arthur Verkins. The Brooklyn line leaves Upper M'illis street at the foot of Nairn street and proceeds over a sharp incline to the suburban area on the hill-top southward of the city. While descending this incline one oi the big new palace cars.left the track at. a point near the Nairn street plantation and after travelling about fifteen yards the under carriage was ripped oil' and the car toppled over an embankment which at this point is about 8 ft. in height. Mrs. Bell is supposed from the nature of her injuries to have been killed outright, hut it was over an hour before her body could he taken from under the car, which is of great weight and could only be shifted by the use of powerful jacks. Her husband was slightly injured and was removed to a neighboring house, llae and Perkins were taken to the hospital suffei - ing from cuts and contusions. Mr. and Mrs. Bell were on a holiday and were returning to their home fiom Christchurch and other places in the South. They had taken a trip in the car to view the city from the Brooklyn heights. For some time after the Brooklyn section was opened for traffic ‘the City Council only had a permit to run what arc known as hoy ■ cars—the lightest cars on the citytracks—up this incline and only i twenty-four people were allowed to ; ride each trip. The traffic, however, increased so mticli that the public Works Department lately, after making tests, gave a permit for heaviei cariy- to he run on the section. The i palace cars, one of which came to ! grief, each seat sixty passengers 1 How the mishap occurred is noJ 1 known, but it is supposed that tlm 1 car ran away from the brakes.