Second Edition. RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR TAUMARUNUI.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14508, 22 January 1915, Page 7

Second Edition. RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR TAUMARUNUI.

ON A PRIVATE LINE. ONE KILLED, FOUR, INJURED. (Per United Press Association;) TAUMARUNUI, January, 22. A terrible accident occurred this morning on, the Taringamotu Timber Co.’s line. A train of open trucks with a covered passenger car, runs from Ta.ringamotu to Waituhi, and a number of Maoris were,. travelling in the open trucks, some pakehas travelling in the covered ear. Apparently the train rau off the line, as the trucks overturned, killing a Maori child, and badly ; injur—, ing the mother, breaking the. , legs of two Maori women,-and the arm of another. The covered van saved the pakehas, who escaped injury. .