THREE DEATHS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 12 June 1929, Page 4

THREE DEATHS

LORRY STRUCK BY TREE .WO WOMEN AND AN INFANT KILLED TRAGIC OCCURRENCE IN BULLER GORGE (By Telegraph—l'resa Aaeociationj WESTPORT, This Day. • An accident in which three people were killed occurred through a landslide at Blackwater, in the Buller ' Gorge, last night. The victims were Mrs Parker and niiant daughter, and Mrs, So'Uthon, Mr 3 Parker's mother. It appears that ,Mr Parker, a carrier, coming from Inangahua Junction to Tiroroa in a motor lorry, with his wife, two children, and Mrs Southcn, to allow a service car from Nelson to pass through, pulled to the side of the roar), just as a big slip came away, carry- " ing a tree with it. The tree struck the lorry, "Rilling the two women and . the infant. Parker got clear with seme injuries. Assistance was sought from railway construction camps, and the other child was rescued in a battered state and the bodies of the victims recovered.. Apparently the tree fell on the side of the cab and half tipped the lorry, which then righted itself. / » When rescuers arrived on the scene of the accident, Mrs Parker and the infant were ah'eady dead. Mrs Southoh was buried underneathj'the wreckage, and the rescuers were unable to extricate her for a considerable. ,time. Z" The lorry was practically undamaged. This morning, Parker, and also the boy were reported to be progressing fav- . ourably. f. The tragedy occurred within a chain of the place where Messrs Atkinson and Watson lost their lives recently..