ACCIDENT TO A COACH.
Wasliod Down from a Ford.
Nelson, November 5
The Nelson-Blenheim coach met with a mishap when crossing, the Collins River Ford, near the Whangaraoa Accommodation House. As the coach entered the ford an accumulation of debris came down with a wave, the river rising suddenly about tour feet. The coach was carried to the edge of the ford below which is a deep hole. Seeing the danger, the driver held his horses, and Sergeant- Major Redmond got out at the back of the coach with a line, which he made fast, and the other passengers got to the bank safely. The leaders were next liberated, and they escaped ; but directly an effort was'made to remove the coach it Was carried over, the driver (George Newman) going with it. He managed-to get ashore lower down, much bruised. ' The coach went down the stream and was broken to pieces, and • both shatters were drowned. The passengers’ luggage and the mails were lost, save a hamper of parcels. The passengers have just been brought back to town.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3723, 6 November 1906, Page 3
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178ACCIDENT TO A COACH. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3723, 6 November 1906, Page 3
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