FATAL TRAIN ACCIDENT.
A MAORI CHILD KILLED. SEVERAL PEOPLE INJURED. I3y Telegraph.—Per Press A3-;oeiaSion Taumarunui, Yesterday. A terrible accident occurred this morn-, bg on the Taringamotu Timber Company's line. A train of open trucks, with a covered passenger car, runs from Taringamotu to Waituhi. A number of Maoris travelled on an open truck, the pakeliaa travelling in the. covered car. Apparently the train ran off the line, as the trucks were overturned, killing a Maori child, badly injuring the mother, and -breaking the legs of two Maori women and the arm of another. Fortunately the covered van saved the pakehas, who escaped injury.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 193, 23 January 1915, Page 2
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103FATAL TRAIN ACCIDENT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 193, 23 January 1915, Page 2
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