CROSSING TRAGEDY
K • ■ ———" — i* WERE GATES CLOSED? ' (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) MELBOURNE, March 24. The revised list of those killed in the level crossing accident accounts for the folk wing: —Michael McDonnell (59), Clarence McDonnell (32), Mrs Pearl McDonnell (30), Haymond McDonnell (four months), Martin Folev (36), Enid Grace (18) Edward Shatlock (37), Mrs Josephine Shatlock, wife of the former. The baby was the only body recognisable.- It is -surmised that it died of shock. The safety bell was tested alter the accident, and found in good order. Just before the smash, the crossing keeper is said to have shouted: “For God’s r.ake, get i a move on. A train is coming.” It is stated that he hid the gates open to let the car pass, but details are very meagre. The Railway Department is investigating , a suggestion that one set of gates was open to let the pa-s, while the other was closed against it.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 March 1925, Page 5
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