FUNERAL IN A FLOOD.
RESCUE OF MOURNERS.
The heavy floods at Dunkertou, Somerset, led to an exciting and dangerous occurrence .ft a funeral lately. On tho way to church the horses of the third carriage took fright in four feet of water and dashed into the preceding carriage. The wheels of tho two vehicles became, locked and men waded waist deep through the floods to rescue the mourners, who wore carried out Of the carriages into the churchyard.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18891, 13 December 1924, Page 2 (Supplement)
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78FUNERAL IN A FLOOD. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18891, 13 December 1924, Page 2 (Supplement)
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