ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
FEB PUESS ASS'JCIATIOIT. Auckland, March 10. A serious accident happened at a gathering at Moriopu. The children crowded to one side of a wire bridge, which gave way, and 30 persons were precipitated twenty feet into the creek. Great excitement ensued. No lives were lost, but R. Ellis, five years old, had a thigh fractured, and Kate Murphy, aged 15, had her shoulder badly strained. Others received seveso bruises, and there were many marvellous escapes from death. Eva Rawlioson, a pupil teacher at Aratapu, a girl of 16 years, nervous and somewhat strange in disposition, has been missing since Saturday. She left let tew to her father saying she was going out of her mind, as her school work "'as too heavy, and she hud othei complaints. She said that. t-he wn. to die. The mills were stopped to-day, and search parties went out., without result. It is ftwred the younj; lady has drowned herself.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 66, 11 March 1902, Page 2
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158ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 66, 11 March 1902, Page 2
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