MAILMAN'S TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.

Thames Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 10194, 17 January 1907, Page 1

MAILMAN'S TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.

A FIGHT FOR LIFE.

{By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent)

t WIAtEHI, Jajroary 1&. I Eleven sliflpi and [bag washouts have ocburred on tj# line between Waikino * and Karangahake . All the trains fromi here hkwe "been * oanceHed until further insfcrufctdons. DeivecreHl, this Taiurangat-Waiihi mailmaioi, had a terrible experience, on Mfonday- He wias blobbed a,t Wairoa cutting, four males from Taurangai, by ai collosal land slip. He finished the ' journey on horaejbaak.witih, thfe> maals^ returning} yestemdlay <m hwsefoaokwitlT the retlurnL mails*. Ai'teir riding girth deep in,, flood water for several miles, ihle encountered ajbout six chains, just beyond Aongatetei, of road cKsy^aredi by ajbtout six feet of rushingl water. After siwimming 'his horse fwetihree parts of the way the animal rolled .over. J While under watief Deyerell - was ' camgh'b by a Ibaifoed wired' fence." The torse was , washed ©iref. this,, and Deverell clung to the top of tlhe wire and managed' tb> ge* his headl above water 1. " _ • - ' By, a gfeaitt efl^i:rii!ei jxuifedl :hijn»elf;," along the fence till h|e reached*'shallow water,, in a terriWy eachlausted condition,, and hia hands terribly torn. - - Tlie mail bags became detached from the horse, and 1 were carried-, away - fcowards tih© ae'«i^ The hJorse regainedi ground aj •hundred yards further diawn.