BLOWN OFF A BRIDGE.
[By Telegraph.] Auckland, Sept. 8. Last evening the wife of Constable Haughton, in walking behind her husband across the it ilway __ bridge at rielcnsville, was blown off. The husband heard her scream, and jumped off in the darkness, landing in ‘.he mud. He became so deeply embedded that be could not move. A xdiild saw the occurrence, and ran to the station, and Mr Hull, a railway porter, jumped into the creek-and caught Mrs Haughton, who had drifted a hundred yards with her head under water. Hull was; unable to land owing to the mud, but held the woman’s head out of the water until both were rescued by a boat. Animation was restored with difficulty. Haughton was hauled safely out of the mud by ropes.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2642, 8 September 1881, Page 3
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130BLOWN OFF A BRIDGE. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2642, 8 September 1881, Page 3
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