EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 162, 8 January 1912, Page 5

EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE.

! TRAP AND TRAIN COLLIDE. J STRATFORD LADY INJURED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Palmerston'N., Last Night. There was an extraordinary escape ' ' from a fatal accident at the railway crossing nparest the railway station in the Square yesterday afternoon.- John,- -'< Hurley, licensee of the Railway HoteJ, " and Mrs. x Hurley's niece, Miss Bredion, of Stratford, we'te ia a pony carriage, waiting for the incoming Wairarapa . train to pass, and proceeded to cross behind it, when they suddenly found 'the outgoing Auckland express on them: Hurley pulled the pony rpjund and tW ,*. cow-caJtcher struck it on tho rump) ■■ breaking the shaft and splash-board of the ■. governess cart, pony on clear of it. Th>jsjuiy wrenched''* : "' himself clear, leaving «4)fpas' the cowcatcher. Meantime had-. : , : been thrown out, 'the rdad v j/ clear, and the Jady against'' the traipn' .*J> Hurley saw her fe»t .-being brushed' 'j '? .alongside of the as- she Ml her * clear of the wheels. «g& train wag,*.'"' pulled up by the Westm*d|te*:brake& in- ',' about 20 yards. (> % , *ofh*?ZH*p The driver had been- se&the ' ; '' trap owing to the other train. ' Miss Brcdon recovered consciousness in a private hospital last night, though she ■' is badly bruised and suffering from some cuts. There are no bones broken, but she is suffering from shock. Hurley is unable to use his left arm ( to-day through a knock, and is other- , wise bruised, but was able to drive out I this afternoon. ~'" From time to time there has'beW'ali ! ? agitation for a crossing-keeper at this ■ "•& point, which is in the midst of the traffic' ". '■■ and in the busiest street. ' „■'