THREE KILLED.
QUEENSLAND TRAIN COLLISION. (United Press Association—Copyright.! BRISBANE, December 2. A goods train collision occurred early • this morning between Hughenden and Richmond. The drivers of both trains—Herbert McMurtrie, aged 52, married, and George Howler, aged 43, married—and a fireman, George Galton, aged 38, married, were killed. Three others, including two railway guards and one fireman, were injured. The locomotives met head-on, on a single-track travelling at 20 miles an hour. They were completely wrecked, being hurled from the rails and overturned.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 46, 3 December 1938, Page 7
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