FATAL COACH ACCIDENT.
»i [by TELEGRAPH.PRESS association.] Feilding, Thursday. Yesterday, while a coach containing a driver and three passengers was on its way to Birmingham the brake gave way, and in endeavouring to keep the horses in the cutting the pole broke and the whole concern went over the embankment. The driver and two passengers were severely bruised, and the third, named Fortune Gilmer, aged 72, was found underneath one of the horses. He was conveyed to the hotel close by, but died shortly afterwards, from internal injuries and the severe shock to the system.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8209, 21 March 1890, Page 5
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