Narrow Escape.
From the Marton paper we learn that an almost, .miraculous escape from, a fatal aacident happened: on the 1 road on the south side of the bridge on ■Wednesday after. ** ixObn. A trap containing Mrs Elle,rnv her ... baby, aged seven months, Miss Oockburn, and Master Signal was being driven up the incline just • be^o"^ th^ridge^when a man and a %ys-, £n horsebjpcjl came along, iac^* t^ijafeanied by Xwopiags. Just at ; the t^ta'lbne of ; -the 1 ' dogs^Suddenly sprang a^jtb.e tjap^hQrse^iind caught' it by the nose, • Master Signal jumped out 7^o catch the horse by >the head, but vihisi efforfcSj werejyajn, and, the trap -was backed overi the; embankment, and capsized with its occupants,, who ; ; f oiled downwards for a distance of ' lifty or fjfety feet. The man and Wy, above referred to, at onco wont . ,to the- assistance 'of the party. The irlbaby was picked up for dead, but it .-: turned out to have been only stunned, and its injuries were of a very trifling character. /Miss Cockburn got a 'severe shaking, and so did. Mrs El— " lerm, but neither of them was much ' : ; lrart,S::. . •'• ' ■:-■ '. <. - >..- ■■. -. :
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Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 138, 21 November 1884, Page 3
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186Narrow Escape. Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 138, 21 November 1884, Page 3
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