Grim Toll of Crossings
SIX AUSTRALIANS KILLED Five Returning From a Cemetery FOURTEEN INJURED SIX lives in one day is the grim toll that the level-crossing has taken in Australia. Five persons were killed while returning from a cemetery. (United r.A.—By Telegraph Copyright.)
Reed. 10 a.m. MELBOURNE. To-day. Five persons were killed in a levelcrossing accident near Geelong, when a special train crashed into a motorwagon, on which a number of people were returning from the Catholic Cemetery at Merribee, where Cardinal Cerretti had been officiating. The dead are: Leslie Hardgraves, aged 25. Fred Leary. 20. Bessie Smallcombe, 15. Eileen Smallcombe, 15. Helen Kelly, 15.
Six others of the same families were injured. An Adelaide message says that a motor-train bound from Moonta to Adelaide collided with a motor-lorry at the Snowton level-crossing. George Ridgway, aged 60, was killed, and eight members of the same family were injured. All were performers in a touring circus. The accident occurred through the engine of the car stalling on the levelcrossing at the very moment when the train was due.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 473, 1 October 1928, Page 9
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177Grim Toll of Crossings Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 473, 1 October 1928, Page 9
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