SERIOUS ACCIDENTS.
Dunedin, This day. A man named Angus Ross, a book agent, started to Avail, along the raihvay line from Stirling to Kaitangata on Tuesday night. He sat down and fell asleep, and tho train coming along struck him and knocked him off the line. He was found next morning insensible, with four ribs broken. The night was bitterly cold and ivet. An accident occurred through a trap hacking over an embankment at Pembroke, Lake Wanaka, but it resulted in no fatality. Mrs Hassing, one of the occupants, had both jaws fractured, her face dreadfully cut, and sustained some bruises. AMr Austin had his leg broken. The other three occupants escaped with little injury. The party were returning from participating in the opening pleasure trip of a new steamer, on Lake Wanaka.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3778, 24 August 1883, Page 3
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133SERIOUS ACCIDENTS. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3778, 24 August 1883, Page 3
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