ACCIDENT TO THE PRINCESS OF WALES.
Vienna, September 22. H.R.H. the Princess of Wales and her daughter bad a narrow escape from death to-day while out driving at Gmundeo, They were being driven in a pony carriage by an equerry, and when near one of the level crossings of tbe railway line the horse backed into tbe passing train, Ihe Princess received a severe shaking, and returned to the Palace, September 23. The accident iu which H.R.H. tbe Ptincess of Wales and her daughters narrowly escaped losing their lives at Gmunden happened in a peculiar mannei. The carriage was crossing tbe line when the automatic barriers fell, thus preventing the carriage from making an advance or retreating. Colonel Stanley Clark, who was attending Her Royal Highness, I was successful in dragging the carriage to one side of the level crossing just before tbe express train passed. London, September 23. At Marlborough House it is denied that the life of tbe Princess of Wales was imperilled in tbe recent accident at Gmunden, September 24, The Princess of Wales is bow at Munich. She returns to England shortly. ,
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1795, 27 September 1888, Page 1
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186ACCIDENT TO THE PRINCESS OF WALES. Temuka Leader, Issue 1795, 27 September 1888, Page 1
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