HOLIDAY ACCIDENTS
SEVERAL FATALITIES IN AUSTRALIA RAILWAY COLLISION . Sydney, January 2. New Year’s Day in Australia brought its usual fatalities. Two were drowned in New South Wales, one man being carried out at Bondi beach, where thirty others were rescued during the afternoon. Three people lost tlieir lives in Tasmania: when a mail train ran down a car in which were seven people. William Gibson and his wife and child were killed and four others severely injured. Three were killed in Victoria in road accidents, while in Western Australia two brothers, Lloyd and Roy Hardinge, were drowned in the Swan River. The former was an inter-State cricketer. The Melbourne to Sydney Limited Express collided with a pilot engine near Seymour, Victoria, last night. The passengers were flung headlong by the impact, and two were injured. Several women fainted. The express engine was forced off the rails, which were badly twisted. The pilot engine was hurled bodily from the line. Several empty carriages were thrown against the enibankment. The driver of the engine suffered head injuries.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 84, 3 January 1930, Page 9
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175HOLIDAY ACCIDENTS Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 84, 3 January 1930, Page 9
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