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Recovery of the Bodies. [_Special to the "Star."! ASHBURTON, Oct. 13. At daylight this morning a number of men went to search the river-bed for tho bodies of the four children drowned last evening by the trap accident at Eawle's crossing, about half a milo below Digby's bridge. Mr William Compton, who started at daylight from the scene of the accident, found three of the children's bodies a short distance below where the accident happened. A little lower down the river he came across the fourth body. All four were brought into town. At two o'clock, the hour fixed for the inquest, this afternoon, Mr John Ollivier will preside.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6057, 13 October 1887, Page 3
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111LATER PARTICULARS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6057, 13 October 1887, Page 3
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