HORSES ENTOMBED.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 58, 8 March 1913, Page 17

HORSES ENTOMBED.

INCIDENT AT A BURIAL. M^ eitraordlDar r Incident occurred at a funeral on Saturday afternoon, "Ja_ V' Da% News ana Le ader" of Yho Dr awn by four black horses, fa'p7»rn WaS P" Jc ? eal ns along the drive _>, ■™ en Cemetery, Eccles, when the Dly Bnbsi ded, and three of the from sight. ■ who „„ tak6r ' Mr ' J ' B - Meadowcroft, m 2? S T d ° n the *°*' « s ° on «*e : -ished ,H h 6UbsldiDg ' seized the aston - Tieaolon by tte arm ' and flun S hlm i_iV&? the hearse into safety. The =- Sn d ' bj tt ' S Uffle reache d a -«tlag ,I m Hon. and the coffin was beginning to IS-ST toWardS the a P when took bold of one of the -"niies ana saved it. ' tUue e dp? 0Q ? erS ' Who had ia the meanII W? fr ° m tne four carriages of I &»a 1 Hm* Were com P'etely hidden - OfthehT' . ° nly tne UD P er P° rtion IIS y the foUrth wa * Tls 'W«- The indthi S ° f the entombed animals 1 Wl?'" thetter r <" the occasion, BfeSSfcKr G a "oway-the Eo_ -««Ct' th. V h ° haa arra hged to con/iie service-arrived on -the ■OftliP™' ' COD< "Uon, and many ' ij™*. .Warners m tears W« _? eilrriea to the cemetery PStrfe,^^ 6 t0 reSCUe ; ' le sa fevertrt " tQe descending dark- " r ,K, Cne efforts were mad *. « «tC a n S hle U hWeTer ' to r <*<* one ***CK_ S, B J*"*"* after —h ing - horseY ¥ ' bC bodles of the remain4.S»_*r aw _ at a "■**» of , —y from the ground level.