CAR OVERWHELMED
FLOOD WATER IN CREEK
OCCUPANTS DROWNED
(Received October 21, 10.50 a.m.)
- ADELAIDE, This Day. ' A motor-car containing six persons was overwhelmed by flood water in j a creek near Quorn and overturned, | and it is believed that all the occu- j pants were drowned. They were Harry j Crocombe, his daughters, Gertrude,-] aged 24, and Clarice, 27, his son Harry, j twin of Gertrude, Miss Stove, and Miss I Davis. ' j ; Three bodies, believed to be those i of .Gertrude, Clarice, and Harry Cro-j combe, jun., have been recovered. ] The car was> crossing a creek which j is usually dry when a wall of water! three feet high swept down the creek I and carried the car downstream. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 97, 21 October 1935, Page 9
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