FIVE KILLED.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18681, 3 May 1926, Page 7

FIVE KILLED.

i —« ADELAIDE TRAIN CRASHES INTO MOTOR. (by casus—s&bss association—copybiqbs.) (AUSTBALIAN AMD N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) ADELAIDE, May 1. A shocking accident occurred at Cheltenham railway crossing, when five occupants of a motor-car were killed. As the car was approaching the crossing it was raising hard and all the curtains were closed. As the crossing gates were open the car was driven confidently ahead, but when it reached the middle of the down line a train from Adelaide to Port Adelaide crashed into it. There were three women and two man in the car.

All the bodies'were mangled beyond recognition, and the names have not yet been ascertained definitely. They are thought to be all members of tho Caire family of Port Adelaide.

CROSSING-KEEPER MISSING. (Received May 2nd, 5.5 p.m.) (austbaliak and n.z. cable association.) SYDNEY, May 2. The victims of the Cheltenham levelcrossing smash were: John OaiTC, Mrs Bertha Cairo, his wife, Clifton Caire, Mrs Clifton Caire, and Iverna Caire. The police failed to find the gatekeeper after the smash. They consider that the bodies are so mangled that he might be one of them. The fact that tho gates were open indicates that he was on duty shortly before the crash. Tli e engine-driver and fireman state that neither saw the car till they were ten yards from it, but it was then, too late to avert aix accident. They applied the brakes and pulled up within fifty yards. The engine and the two following cars were derailed.