THREE MEN KILLED
AND SEVEN INJURED RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN VICTORIA. TRACK-LAYERS’ TRUCKS OVERTURNED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.0 a.m.) MELBOURNE, December 2. Three railwaymen were killed and seven were injured when two track-layers’ trucks overturned near Glengarry (Gippsland) yesterday afternoon. The men were being conveyed back to their job after lunch, on trucks drawn by a rail-motor. Apparently one man moved to obtain a more comfortable position and in doing so fell off. The brakes were applied suddenly and two trucks left the rails. Rescuers found three men dead. The deceased are:— Thomas Cleary, Edward Barwick and Edwin Luscombe. The men were engaged in relaying the main Gippsland line. One of the injured men, Edwin Grant, is in a serious condition.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 December 1940, Page 4
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