AUSTRALIAN NEWS
A TERRIBLE DEATH
(Australian Press Association) SYDNEY, December 26. Gilbert Sullivan, an apprentice jockey, met with a terrible death when lie was dragged by a bolting racehorse. Sullivan was riding a two year old, when the horse was seized with fright, reared, threw the jockey and then galloped along a concrete suburban road, dragging Sullivan, head downwards. The unfortunate lad was battered almost beyond recognition. VICTORIAN RAILWAY COLLISION. SIELBQURNE, December 26. Twenty-seven persons were injured when a heavy goods train crashed, head on, into a passenger train which was standing at the Tooradin station last night. Only two of those injured are serious cases. The passenger train would probably have been badly wrecked had its engine not absorbed most of the crash. The goods train was travelling twenty-five miles per hour when the collision occurred. The Assisatnt Station Master made, frantic efforts to stop the on-coming goods train, by waving his lantern, but he was too late.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 December 1929, Page 6
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