TWO SCHOOL GIRLS KILLED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7826, 19 June 1909, Page 3

TWO SCHOOL GIRLS KILLED.

Per Press Association,

. ROTORUA, Jua© 18. lhe evidence at the inquest,on.the Futaru.ru accident, by which two girls were killed, showed that trucks of timber were being drawn from the Totara limber Company's mills to the railway station the horse going at a trot,.the dnver standing on the buffers behind the horse. He saw the children onlhe line and called out to them-. Some of the children went off the line towards the row. The two Collier girls went to the opposite side of the' line and endeavoured to save themselves by i standing close to a timber ski& The truck was being driven on a down grade, and, the.brake being «fc.the opposite end of the truck, "the driver had . nrt Control Over it. Before re^hmg + the children he jumped t S I,* 11 ito ,the back of the truck:.'to put the brako on, but was too late; the truck came in contact with the chest, and they died immediatelyv Tlie driver; s view n - ns . olwcured by trees until ho was within fifteen yards of the tith Bn' -V Vel'di Ct ti accidental J lfra lth1th, w:as glven> and IXo blanie was attached to.anyone. A ridel- suggested the removal of the trees. The girls agod twelve and fourteen,, were returning from school, and, being their only children, much sympathy is felt for the parents. Co 1 ier, the father, works in connection with the mill.