AUSTRALIA'S WORST CROSSING DISASTER
TWENTY-FIVE DEAD Soldiers And Servicewomen In Collision N.Z. Press Association.—Copyright Rec. 2.30 p.m. SYDNEY, this day. Twenty-three Australian soldiers and one Service-woman and a bus driver were killed in a night collision between a bus and a locomotive near Albury, the junction of the New South Wales and Victoria State railway systems. Ten other soldiers and two Servicewomen are in hospital. Some of them are in a serious condition. The smash was the worst levelcrossing disaster to have occurred in Australia. Working by flares doctors and ambulance men performed urgent operations on the spot and saved the lives of several of those injured who were in danger of bleeding to death. Amputations were necessary in some cases to free victims from beneath the engine. Twenty were killed instantly and five died later in hospital. Eye-witnesses of the tragedy said that the bodies of the victims were piled on each other. Some were under the engine, which was derailed.
MIGHTY ASSAULT
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 109, 10 May 1943, Page 4
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