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New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9011, 7 April 1915, Page 6

A sensational accident occurred at Wanganui on Good Friday. Two mothers, each wheeling a child in a perambulator, visited the wharf in tho afternoon. They left the children in their perambulators in the centre of a railway track, in a gap between two trains of trucks, while they commenced a conversation. As the two women were talking a shunting engine came along and commenced to push one of tho lines of trucks towards tho other. The parents were unaware of tho danger which threatened their infants until a warning was given by a seaman on an adjacent vessel. Immediately there was a rush to save tlio babies. One mother arrived in time to rescue her child, but tho other , was unable to move her perambulator from tho track. She had the presence of mind, however, to push her baby’s head down as the buffers of the trucks came together, and although a portion of the little one’s clothing was caught on the ooupling-hook of the moving truck, tho child itself was uninjured.