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! WOMAN AND CHILD HAVE REMARKABLE ESCAPE FROM DEATH. A young woman and a child had a j'remarkable escape from death at Walton Station, England, recently I when the engine of a train passed Tight over them. The. aceident was seen by a crowd of people waiting on the platform. The woman, Mrs. Rouse, of Sunbury Lane, Walton, who had a girl aged about four in her arms, was seen to fall in front of the engine of a train from Alton as it steamed into the station. The driver pulled up almost instantly, and the stationmaster and a railway workman extricated the woman from beneath the train at a point two coaches behind the engine. The child was lying near, and when ; rescued, she started to cry for "Moth- | er." The woman and the little girl | were removed to Walton hospital in the ambulance, Mrs. Rouse was suffi ering . from severe shoclc and abrasions.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 429, 13 January 1933, Page 7
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