FATAL ACCIDENT.
[Bt TELEGRAPH.] Dunedin, Thursday. A fatal acoident ooourred this afternoon on the railway at the bridge at Pelichet Bay. Edith May Lucas, 10 years, and a companion of 7 years, played truant from one of the town schools and wandered on the railway bridge when the goods train from Port Chalmers was approaching. The children appear to have seen the train, and the youngest slipped underneath the bridge, bnt Edith Lucas appears to have been paralysed with fear, and was struck by the engine as she stood on the side of the line. The acoident was seen from the Pelichet Bay station, but when the officers reached the spot the child was dead, her neck being broken. The father of the child is butcher on the Elingamite.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11562, 15 June 1900, Page 3
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