LEVEL-CROSSING DISASTER
TWENTY-FIVE PEOPLE KILLED (Rec. 6.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, May » Twenty-three Australian soldiery one service woman, and a bus on were killed in a night collision ee tween a bus and a locomotive n Albury, the junction of the New SouW Wales and Victoria State railway sys terns. Ten other soldiers and two se* vice women are in hospital, some them in a serious condition. The smash was the worst level-cioss ing disaster to have occurred in A . tralia. Working by flares, doctors an ambulance men performed urgent P rations on the spot and saved the l of several of the injured who wer danger of bleeding to death. Amputations were necessary in * . cases to free victims frorn bencatn engine. Twenty were killed instantly and five died later in hospital. Eye-witnesses of the tragedy said bodies of the victims were piled on each other. Some were under tne gine, which was derailed.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23944, 11 May 1943, Page 4
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