DREADFUL TRAGEDY.
ON THE RAILWAY.
CAUGHT AT THE CROSSING.
A MOTHER'S HEROISM.
By Telcsraph—Press Association—Copyright
Hobart, Msrch 30.
A man named Albert Bailey, a carrier, and wife and a 2s-year-old child v/ore crossing the 'railway line near North Bridgewater , (twenty miles from Hobart), when a train crashed into "the vehicle.
Bailey was decapitated, and terribly mangled. His wife, among the wreckage, showed a mother's devotion, and clung to her child. She said: "I shielded it." Sho had several ribs broken, but the child was not hurt.
The horges were cut to pieces, and the vehicle was carried,a distance of 150 yards.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2111, 31 March 1914, Page 5
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101DREADFUL TRAGEDY. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2111, 31 March 1914, Page 5
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