On Monday (says the 'Southland Times') a single woman named Christina Watson Fawcett, who resided with her relatives at Waikoikoi, accompanied by her sister, Mrs Little, set out to join the train for Dunedin at Pomahaka station, but owing to the floods they had to walk a considerable distance further — viz., to Waipahi — where Miss Fawcett arrived in a very agitated condition. Deceased, accompanied by her sister, joined the train, but expired before reaching Clinton. Deceased, who had been medically treated, was supposed to have died from heart disease, and as a medical certificate to that effect was forthcoming an inquest was not deemed necessary. -Evening Star, 3/4/1913.
Southland has had a heavy deathroll during the last week. On 28th March Patrick Walsh was drowned in the Otapiri; later in the same day David Younger, Groper’s Bush, was drowned while trying to safeguard his stock from the floods; on the 29th a little girl named Veint perished in a water-hole at Five Rivers; and on 31st Christina Watson, wife of H. Fawcett, of Waihoaka, aged 29, died in the train, near Clinton. She was on her way to friends in Dunedin. She had intended to board the the train at Pomahaka, but was compelled, owing to floods, to walk to Waipahi, and the exertion proved too much for her. She had been under medical treatment. -Southern Cross, 5/4/1913.
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