TE RATA DISASTER.
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Tbo diatreaeinga news wns received on Saturday that wbon Dr Scott rceohrd ihr sufferers by the landslip it wes found rrcetaary to amputate Mrs Merritt's leg the ngly gaahcn tho ODk'o haviDg oans-od mollification to set in. Neoeasary medi camebts wore drspatobod from town, aod | an endeavor was also made to got a nurse np to Arowhaua, whero tbo patient is lyiDg. Details to band show that Mrs Merritt 1b a real beroior, and the other sufferers aro very warm in her prai-e. ■SYhen hope of rescur seemed dim the brive woman showed such eplend.d spirit under tbo trial that the boartß of the others were buoyed up at a timo when to have given in would bayo meant death, The ibjured men, Messrs F. A. Tiffsn, Merriit! and Jodbs, are mskiDg good prodrees towards recovery. No warning of nDy kind was given of the landslip by which tho house waa overwhelmed. Too opoupanta wero embedded up to their neck ih the' debris and water, and much of Jha silii forced down {hpir throrta. When they aid reach tho wooshed tbeir sufferings from tbo cold wero very severe. Mr and Mrs Merritt bad not long been under engagement at Te Rata, and bad got to like the place very much, little dreaming of tho terrible experienoo in slots.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1815, 23 July 1906, Page 3
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