TRAPPED BY FLAMES.
MAIL CAR DESTROYED.
SEVEN MAIL BAGS BURNED. PASSENGERS' MARVELLOUS ESCAPE. (B/ Telegraph.—Press Association.) NELSON, this day. The mail car that runs from Westport to Nelson, was burned at Spooner's range, late yesterday afternoon. A scrub fire in a gully quickly ran up the hillside, blocking progress and cutting off retreat. The flames swept across the road and caught the car, which (including seven mhilbags on the windward side), was destroyed. Fortunately there was a patch on the roadside previously burned, where the passengers, numbering sixteen, escaped from the flames. But for this, the consequences would have been most calamitous.
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Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 49, 27 February 1924, Page 7
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102TRAPPED BY FLAMES. Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 49, 27 February 1924, Page 7
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