EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10520, 8 January 1912, Page 5

EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE

FROM A FATAL ACCIDENT. (By Telegraph — Press Association.) FMJMEORSTON N., Last Night. There wasi an. extraordinary escape, from a fatal accident at the railway crossing nearest the railway station in the Square yesterdayafternoon'. John. Hurley, licensee of the Railway Hotel, and Mrs Run-ley's niece, Miss Bredon, of Stratford, were in a pony carriage, waiting for the inoamamg Wairarapa train to pass, and prc*ceeded to cross- behind it, whem they suddenly found the outgoing Auckland express on them. Mr Hurley pulled the pony round, and the cowcatcher struck it on the rump., breaking a shaft and the splashboard of the governess cart, and carrying the pony orr'clear of it. The pony wrenched himself clear, Heaving a, s3ioe in the cowcatcher. In the meanitime both occupants had been- thrown out, Mr Hurley on the fCad, clear, and the lady against tlhe ti-aini. , Hurley saw her feet being brushed alongside of the railway carriage, ajid* 'a is she feffl underneath, i% he pulled, her clear of the wheels-. ' The train was- pulled up by the Bennington brakes in- about 20 yards. The driver had been, ulna.ble to. see the trap, o-wirjis to the other train:. MHss'.Bred<m recovered conseiouss. nesa in- a private hospital last night. Though badJy bi'nis'ect, and suffering from stone cutis', th.?re are no bones 1 broken, Wt she lis- suffering from S'hD.CK. ■- Hurley, is unable to use his Mt> "arm- to-day, through a. knocik, and i& otherwise bruised, but was able to drive out this- afternoon. -.,- -'. ■;■ . ;•

From- time., to .time .there hais>bee,n ft.-n agi'tntim- fcr, a. cro-ssnkig-keeper r<tthis 'point, which, is in the midr-'t r.' the traffic of the busiest street.