Shocking Accident
[PKB FKITKD PJJESS ASSOCIATION.] Chbistchttbbh. This Day. At a qua ter to 9 this morning the 1 Rnngiora Presbyterian choir was going < m an express wnggon for a picnic to \ Woodend S a Bench, when %he train i from Christchurch came up at the cross- i ing. The driver did not notice i° ti'l too . late. The train ran into ihe express, I cutting the horses away and seriously i mjunnu wrer-il in it. David Kerr, the < Bon of a well - known builder, about i 20 years old, died in a few minutes, i Miss .Viarrall lost an arm and leg, and ] hns since died. Donald McKay, tinsmith, J m 1 two otlv rs sons of Kerr are reported ' ' ilso dead, bin in consequence of the I i inliday reliable details are not easily I f procured. i
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 81, 16 December 1884, Page 2
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140Shocking Accident Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 81, 16 December 1884, Page 2
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