TERRIBLE CALAMITY.
A, WOMAN XND HER CHILDKEN BUJJIED. (PER KtESS ASSOCIATION.) . Wellington, This day. A fatal accident has occurred at the Makohine viaduct some eleven mlies beyond Hunterville. The material taken out of the cutting forming the approach is thrown down a bank and this stuff slipped and buried beneath it the wife of Tbos Quinlivan and three children and the child of P. Quinlivan. The men are navvies at work on the line. A hundred men at once were put upon the work of rescue and the dead dodies of Mrs Quinlivan and two children were recovered. There is no hope that the other children can be alive. It is supposed the Quinlivans had pitched their tent below the bank of soil.
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Bush Advocate, Volume XI, Issue 858, 14 November 1893, Page 3
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123TERRIBLE CALAMITY. Bush Advocate, Volume XI, Issue 858, 14 November 1893, Page 3
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