CROSSING SMASH
WORST IN AUSTRALIAN HISTORY 24 MEN AND ONE WOMAN' KILLED. BUS AND LOCOMOTIVE COLLIDE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) SYDNEY, May 10. Twenty-three Australian soldiers, one service woman, and the bus driver were killed in a night collision between a bus and a locomotive near Albury, the junction of the New South Walse and Victoria State railway systems. Ten other soldiers and two service women are in hospital, some of them in a serious condition. The smash was the worst level crossing disaster that has occurred in Australia.
Working by flares, doctors and ambulance men performed urgent operations on the spot and saved the lives of several of the injured who were in danger of bleeding to death. Amputations were necessary in some cases to free the victims from beneath the engine. Twenty were killed instantly, and five others died later in hospital.
Eyewitnesses of the tragedy said that the bodies of the victims were piled one on top of the other. Some were under the engine, which was derailed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 May 1943, Page 3
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170CROSSING SMASH Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 May 1943, Page 3
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