THE COACH ACCIDENT.—FURTHER PARTICULARS.
Greymouth, This day
Further particulars re the coach accident are to hand. Mitchell Avas driving, the regular driver being inside. On the box seat Arere Mrs Tcmpcrley, Miss Kilgour, Mr Golightley, a commercial traveller, and inside, besides tho driver, avci-o a lady, a jockey named Sandy, and a Chinaman. Those inside tho coach escaped comparatively uninjured beyond a severe shaking, and those outside also escaped miraculously. The coach fell on the top of Miss Kilgour, but she sustained only slight injuries. Mitchell is very much cut and bruised, and his collar bone is broken. -Ho got on his feet after the accident, but soon fell doAvn again. The hill is usually knoAvn as Divery's, or TAvehe-Mile, and is very dangerous. The passengers agree that but for'Mitchell's presence of mind in' steering his team'up against the bank all would have been precipitated into the creek and probably killed.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3817, 9 October 1883, Page 3
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151THE COACH ACCIDENT.—FURTHER PARTICULARS. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3817, 9 October 1883, Page 3
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