FLOOD TRAGEDY
MOTOR CAR OVERWHELMED. I ALL BODIES RECOVERED. (Press Association.—Copyright.) 1 (Received 12.45 a.m.) Adelaide, this day. The bodies of all six victims of the car tragedy at Quorn have now been recovered. A motor car containing six people was overwhelmed by flood water in a crqek near Quorn and capsized. The ocupants were: Mr. Harry Crocombe and his daughters, Gertrude, 24, and Clarice, 27; Harry Crocombe, a twin of Gertrude; Miss Stove and Miss Davis. The car was being driven across the creek which is unusually dry, when a wall of water three feet high swept over it and carried it downstream.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 4762, 22 October 1935, Page 5
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104FLOOD TRAGEDY King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 4762, 22 October 1935, Page 5
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