STRUCK BY TRAIN.
• TWO HORSES KILLED. DRIVER'S NARROW ESCAPE. i _ (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) , HAWERA Sept. 30. Two horses were killed in the Pa tea railway yards yesterday morning when caught on th© line by a train entering the station, about 200 yards north of the platform. The animals were part of a'..team .of four, drawing, a contractor's dray. The driver, Ernest Pullen, had a narrow escape trying to save the team and was just able to swiing the three leaders at right angles to the line, when two were cut down by the engine. The horses were owned by Messrs. W. C. Glendy, Ltd., and were valued at £7O. They were not insured.
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Thames Star, Volume LXI, Issue 16991, 30 September 1927, Page 5
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113STRUCK BY TRAIN. Thames Star, Volume LXI, Issue 16991, 30 September 1927, Page 5
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