FUNERAL TRAGEDY.
AT BURIAL OF OWN VICTIMS. FATAL BUS CRASH. LONDON March 6. While tens of thousands of people were converging on Cwm to attend the funeral of twenty colliery victims the brakes of a motor-bus containing about thirty-five Oakdale men, women and children, failed on a hairpin bend overlooking the Marine Colliery. The motor-bus crashed through iron mailings, somersaulted, and fell, wheels in the air, upon trucks of pitprops in the eelliery sidings. Two men were killed instantly. Twenty-three injured were carried to a room at the colliery where last week the victims of the explosion lay, and attended by Dr. O’Sullivan, who again was first on the scene. The police at first feared there would be a panic rush down the hillside by crowds lining the streets, but the news did not reach the village until the mourners, estimated at a hundred thousand, dispersed.-—(A. and N.Z.)
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Wairarapa Age, 8 March 1927, Page 3
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148FUNERAL TRAGEDY. Wairarapa Age, 8 March 1927, Page 3
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