CRASH INTO SHEEP
RAIL MOTOR TROLLEY TRAIN
tWO MEN KILLED, 19 INJURED
MELBOURNE, November 8.
Two men were killed and nineteen were injured, two seriously,, when v a rail motor trolley collided with a flock of sheep near Sealake.
The dead are Ernest Neville, aged 35, and Biehard Branson, 19.
The rail motor was drawing two trailers on which were 30 relief work, ers. While descending a hill, it seared the sheep, which stampeded and rushed on the permanent way. The.trailers were derailed, and the , men were hurled in all directions.
Ncvillo and Branson received fractured skulls and died instantly. Some of the others, it is feared, are hurt internally.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 113, 9 November 1933, Page 11
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110CRASH INTO SHEEP Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 113, 9 November 1933, Page 11
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