DROWNED IN A CREEK.
MOTHER AND TWO CHILDREN A REMARKABLE ACCIDENT. By Telegraph.—Press Assocbtion. Te Kuiti, Last Night.
A drowning accident, involving the 101 l of three lives, took place this afternoon. . A young child of Mrs. Ernie Thorns, of Mangahoe, met with an accident when going to school, and Mts. Thorns got her eldest 'boy to drive a car containing h*r< self, the injured child, and a toaby to Te Kuiti for medical attention.
Crossing a small creek, generally dry, it was found the water flooded the engine, and the boy went for help. Ob ilia return the car and the occupants had disappeared.
Tlie body of Mrs. Thorns was recover* ed, but the bodies of the two children an* still missing.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 March 1920, Page 4
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