TRAIN SMASHES INTO A BUGGY.
CLERGYMAN AND LADY KILLED. MELBOURNE, Tuesday. Rev. John O. A, Clarke, incumbent of St. Mary's Church of England, Smythesdale, near Ballarat. and Miss Cotton, a lady friend, were driving over a railway classing this afternoon, near .Smythesdale, when a mixed train ran. :nto the buggy and smashed it to pieces. Mr. Clarke and Miss Cotton were killed. instantly. Their bodies were carried tome distance on the cow-catcher. Miss Cotton's body was found 100 yards up the track, lying in a pool of blood. The horses escaped unhurt. The. driver of the train, Thomas Bourke, saw the buggy, which was hooded, aproaching the line, and whistled, expecting the occupants would pull up. They, however, he says, paid no atxention to the warning. The crossing is not obscured in any way. Rev. Father Barrett, of Smythedale, was riding on a bicycle almost immediately behind the buggy, and heard the whistle. Miss Cotton, who was 26 years of age, was a member of a well-known family at lanton. She had been on a visit to the Manse, and had accepted as offer bar .Glezke t» Sma het hm%> ,
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 73, 26 March 1906, Page 5
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190TRAIN SMASHES INTO A BUGGY. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 73, 26 March 1906, Page 5
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