A SERIOUS WAGGON ACCIDENT.
[by telegraph.—own correspondent.] Paeroa, Wednesday. As Mr. John Kennedy was returning from Waihi yesterday with his waggon and four horses, he met with an accident which nearly cost him his life. After passing Owharoa at about half-past ten p.m., the front wheel of the waggon slipped over the cliff, aboat 30 feet high, and the vehicle then wenb bodily over into Jibe river. The four horses, very valuable animals, were drowned in the river, which was in flood, and Mr. Kennedy wis very badly hurt, breaking his thigh and sustaining other severe injuries. The waggon, a new one, has not been recovered, and the sufferer was driven to the Thames Hospital to-day. When Mr. Kennedy was found by Mr. Mannox, he was in a very exhausted condition. Soon afterwards three Thames miners came along, and one of them, Charles Bull, went down the cliff and brought Kennedy on his shoulders up to the road, after surmounting most difficult obstacles. Dr. Williams, who examined Kennedy at the Thames Hospital, found that his right thigh was broken, ami also two or three ribs. The value of the horses lost is estimated at £150.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9080, 5 January 1893, Page 4
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195A SERIOUS WAGGON ACCIDENT. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9080, 5 January 1893, Page 4
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