ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
+ [Per Press Association.] TAIHAPB, June 5. A terrible fatality is reported from Ohakune, by which three people were killed. It appears that a man named Brown, the keener of a refreshmentroom at Ohakune station platform, lived with his wife and child in a tent. They were all found dead early this morning. The fatality was due to a tree falling across the tent. The tree fell across the mother and child, crushing their heads to a pulp, and struck the father across the groin, and a spike eight inches by four inches passed right through his body. All were killed outright. The furniture was smashed to pieces. A neighbour, fifteen yards away, heard nothing but the screaming of the gale. It took the relief party two hours to saw up the tree and release the bodies. The fatality cast quite a gloom over the township, where the deceased were well and favourably known. A gang of seven men working on a mill tramline had a narrow escape, trees falling all round. A tree fell on another whare while the occupant was in bed and smashed the place, but he escaped.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9254, 5 June 1908, Page 3
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193ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Star (Christchurch), Issue 9254, 5 June 1908, Page 3
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