SHOCKING GAB ACCIDENT.
TWO WOMEN KILLED.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
NAPIER. Last Night. A shocking cab accident occurred in> Milton Road to-day, resulting in the death of two women and serious injury to another. While (the oab" was coming down, the hill, oaie of the horses stumbled,and dragged the driver off his seat I and along the road, till he was forced to let go the reins. The horses then, bolted, and at the bottom of the road ran ovter two women who 'we're stamding on the footpath. The occupants of the cab, ' (Mrs and [Miss Ruth Anderson, visitors from Wellington), were thrown out. One of those on the footpMh, Mrs Baker, wife of a local butcher, and Miss Riuth Anderson, died in the hospital a<n hour pr two later. The other woman on the footpath, Mrsi Parson, lilad a, leg broken. •The driver escaped with a lacerated forearm. The under part of the ca*b .was ismashed ito atoms, and one of the horses was 'so ibadly injured that it had to be destroyed'. An inquest will be held to-mor-row.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10401, 23 August 1911, Page 4
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179SHOCKING GAB ACCIDENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10401, 23 August 1911, Page 4
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