TWO FIREMEN KILLED
SEVERAL OTHERS INJURED
WHILE GOING TO A FIRE.
(61 TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.-) HAMILTON, This Day. As a fire-engine carrying eleven men was proceeding to a fire, it tried to pass a motor-lorry which was in the centre of the road. The driver of the latter 'evidently did not hear the engine, and kept straight on."The engine, in endeaVouring to pass, struck a bank, with the result that it turned a complete somersault, and "tha men were scattered in all directions. Albert Graham, aged 24, died on the way to Hospital. George Prince, aged, sixty-eight, was removed to the hospital, where his leg was amputated. He died three hours later.
S. Dickey is in Hospital, still unconscious. Superintendent Archer has a broken col-lar-bone. The others were seriously injured. The engine was badly smashed.
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Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 17, 20 January 1921, Page 8
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