ALMOST A TRAGEDY
INFANT'S REMARKABLE ; ESCAPE.
(Special to "The Evening Post.") PALMERSTON N., This Day.
A hands-breadth separated a little child from death yesterday on one of the numerous railway crossings in Palmerston North.
In front of a train coming into Palmerston North, and distant from the crosuing only about 100 yards, two small girls were, between them, conducting a tiny tot over the crossing.
The little one in the centre, unwilling to cross, was endeavouring to pull the others back, when she- caught her foot on the line, and fell. The train by this time was very close, frightoned the elder girls into a panic, and they fled leaving the unfortunate baby lying on the line, from which, luckily, she managed to crawl a few seconds before the engine thundered past.
So close was the child to being run over that the enginodriver pulled the train up, thinking that the little one had not been ablo to crawl clear.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 5, 7 January 1927, Page 8
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160ALMOST A TRAGEDY Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 5, 7 January 1927, Page 8
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