Sad Case of Drowning.
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION). Blenheim. April 24. A sad fatality occurred last evening, when Mrs Humphries and her child and Miss Wratt were drowned while crossing the Wairau river at the Waikakaho ford. No one saw the accident, but it is believed that the dogcart in which the ladies were seated was tipped up, the occupants being thus shot into the stream. Search parties have discovered the bodies of the two women close to the trap, but tbat of tbe child, which was two years of age, has not been recovered. The body of Mrs Humphries was much disfigured, but that of Miss Wratt was uninjured, and her hand was still clasping tne whip. The trap must have been overturned on entering the river, one wheel having gone into a hole. The horse was drowned in the shafts.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 297, 25 April 1894, Page 2
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141Sad Case of Drowning. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 297, 25 April 1894, Page 2
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