A SHOCKING TRAGEDY.
FOUR LIVES LOST.
fPEP. PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] WESTPORT, Dec. 2.
An awful tragedy occurred at Karamea on Sunday evening at 6 o’clock, accounting for the lives of Mrs Thoimer, two children, and a man named Harry Harris. The Karamea correspondent telephoned to the “Times” the following particulars: At nine o’clock Dr Theimer his wife and two children went out from Karamea to spend some little time on the Oparara beach, a couple of miles to the north. The doctor rode on horseback, but Mrs Theimer and family rode in a gig, driven by Harry Harris. On the way home at (5 o’clock the doctor forded the Oparara, the horse having swum from the south bank of the river. He sang out to his wife that the tide was dangerous, and that she had better go further down the stream where lie thought that the water was shallower. Harris did as directed, but when half-way across the horse and gig got among the quicksand, or “pot-hole.” or something of the kind, and after a few splashes all disappeared.
The body of Mrs Theimer was recovered. Search parties are out.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1918, Page 2
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191A SHOCKING TRAGEDY. Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1918, Page 2
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