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Maeton, This Day. Yesterday morning a married woman named Johanna Quillivan, tbrse of her children, and a neice were overwhelmed by a slip at Makohini. The children were swinging on a tree near the road when Mrs Quillivan, in the house, heard a cracking in the earth on the slope above them, and the children screaming. An eye witness says that when the mother reached the door she saw a large slip coming down upon her children, and instantly ran to their rescue, but before she could reach them they were buried by a tremendous rush of debris, and she was also struck by a falling tree and covered with several feet of soil. A large party of men were soon on the spot, and by yesterday evening the bodies of Mrs Quillivan and three children had been recovered in a shockingly mutilated state. The slip is said to have been caused by the weight of the material excavated from the railway tunnels and cuttings higher up the sidling. An inquoßt will be held to-day.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 116, 14 November 1893, Page 2
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177LATER PARTICULARS. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 116, 14 November 1893, Page 2
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