3 MEN DROWNED IN FEW INCHES OF WATER
(10.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 2. Three shearers were found drowned pinned beneath an overturned truck in a few inches of water in a creek near Gilgandra, Western New South Wales. It is believed that they were drowned oh Wednesday night when the truck struck a culvert over the creek and toppled into it. Yesterday a man walking through the bush saw part of the truck protruding from the mud of the creek and the bodies of the three men were found beneath the truck.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22758, 2 October 1948, Page 5
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