NARROW ESCAPE.
FROM LINGERING DEATH
To a series of fortunate chances an inhabitant of Berck-sur-Mer, France, owes his escape from a horrible and lingering death. The gentleman, who is partly paralysed, had rashly ventured in his donkey-drawn cart on to the sand a't low tide. At a certain point his vehicle was caught in a quicksand. Unable to stir a limb, he could only watch; powerless and terror-stricken, the advancing tide. But the drone and throb of a motor reached his ear. It was a military aviator returning to his hanger at Le Crotoy. Struck by the presence of a vehicle at so late an hour —it was now sunset —and in such a spot, the pilot descended to within a hundred feet of the beach, and there hung, circling like a great bird. As luck would have it, a cockle fisher returning to Berck along the dunes was struck by the strange manoeuvres of the aeroplane. He approached and immediately realised the dangerous plight of the imprisoned man. But the wheels of the cart were now axle deep in the shifting sand, and it was necessary to summon the keeper of the neighbouring lighthouse before the occupant of the cart could be dragged to firm ground and to safety, just in time, for a few moments later the waves were washing over the spot where he had looked death in the face for two terrible hours.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1115, 28 June 1913, Page 4
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237NARROW ESCAPE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1115, 28 June 1913, Page 4
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