A Sad Drowning Accident.
FIVE LIVES LOST. DANGERS OF NEW ZEALAND RIVERS. Invercabgill, last night. A sad accident occurred at an island in the Mataura river early this mornin g. A man named McFarlane, his wife and child and hie wife’s sister and brother, and a boy. were crossing the river in a two-horse dray when the dray was turned round by the current, which was running very swiftly owing to the swollen state of the river, and the whole of the occupants were swept out. The boy clu ig to a box and got safely ashore, but the oi hers were drowned. The accident wag not witnessed by anvope from the bank, The leading horse dragged the (iray and the drowned shatter out of the river. None of the bodies have yet been recovered.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 214, 27 October 1888, Page 3
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135A Sad Drowning Accident. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 214, 27 October 1888, Page 3
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