PICKED UP BY A TRAIN.
AT SIXTY MILES AN HOUR.
WHEN CAR STALLED. A MARVELLOUS ESCAPE. (By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received 1.30 p.m.) XEW YORK, December 26. Kenneth Clarke took his wife and mother-in-law for a, motor ride on Christmas night. When crossing a railway line the motor stalled, just as an express train, travelling at (50 miles an hour, passed. Clarke and his mother-in-law were uninjured, and though both searched diligently they found no trace of the wife. A few- minutes later a farmer at a wayside station saw a woman clinging to the front of tho locomotive. It took fifteen minutes to convince the driver that he had a new passenger. Mrs. Clarke was unconscious from the cold, having travelled sixteen miles, and she would probably have perished soon. Otherwise she. was unhurt.— (A. and X.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 307, 27 December 1924, Page 4
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