Shocking Fatal Accident
Westpobt, July 15. A sad accident occurred this afternoon by which three lives were lost. Early in the afternoon Mrs W. Campbell and Mrs Andrew McClusky, sisters, went out for a drive in a trap, accompanied by two children of the latter— a boy aged four and a girl aged two. They went along the Nine-Mile road until they reached the Buller overflow bridge, which is not railed. While crossing the bridge the horse, trap and occupants tell 'ff it into ten feet of water. Mrs McClusky clutched a pile of the bridge and screamed for help. A man coming along the road rescued Mrs McClusky. The body of the younger child was fonnd floating on the top of the water. The bodies of Mrs Campbell and the elder child were dragged for and recovered later on and brought to town. The horse was drowned Mrs McClusky is prostrated by the shock.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 12, 16 July 1892, Page 2
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