SERIOUS COACHING ACCIDENT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81882, 6 November 1906, Page 3

SERIOUS COACHING ACCIDENT

PASSENGERS NARROW ESCAPE (Per rre-s Association). N'el-on- November 5. The Nelson-Blenheim coach, which Mi here ihis morning, met with a mishap crossing the Col ns River lord, near Wangamoa accommodation house. As the coach entered on the ford, an accumulation of debris came down with a wave, the river rising suddenly about 4ft. The coach wa s carried to the edge of the ford, be-low which i* a deep hole The dtivcr, seeing tlic danger, held his horses, and Serg'ant-Ma ior Redmond go; out at the b.ick of th- each w.th a line which he made fast, and the other passengers. Mr Walter Hill, Mr O'Brien, Mrs C"lt and infant, got to the bank safely. The leaders were E'-xt liberated, a:-' '!«y ' -taped, but d.rectlv an error, was made to move th<- coach, it wa carr cd over- the driver, George Newman, going with it. but he managed logo, ashore lower down niu< li !ini v "il. The coach w<nt down the r-tr' nm and was broken to pieces, and both shatters were drowned. The pa--eng'r-' luggage and the ms> wen- 10-t. save -ome hampr-r parcels The passengers h.,v- Hist been brought b.i'k to town.