FATALITY LIST
HOLIDAY DISASTERS. (Australian Press Association) (Received this day at 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 2. New Year’s Day in Australia brought its usual fatalities. Two were drowned in New South Wales, one man being carried out at Bondi Beach where thirty others remained during the afternoon.
Three people lost their lives in Tasmania, when a mail train ran , down a car in which were seven people. William Gibson, his wife and child were killed, four others being severely injured. Three were killed in Victoria in road accidents, while in Western Australia two brothers, Lloyd and Roy Heading were drowned in the Swan river. The former was an inter-State cricketer.
TRAINS COLLIDE
SYDNEY, Jan. 2
The Melbourne to Sydney limited express collided with a pilot engine near Seymour, Victoria, last night. The passengers were flung headlong by the impact. Two were injured and several women fainted. The express engine was forced off the rails, which were twisted. The pilot engine was hurled bodily from the line. Several empty carriages were thrown against the embankment. The driver of the pilot engine suffered head injuries.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1930, Page 5
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