AUSTRALIAN TRAGEDY.
SYDNEY. Aug. 1A motor-lorry containing two families going for a week-end in the country overturned on the southern road. The two wives and seven children were thrown clear and were not hurt. The husbands Mr John Milligan aged 25, and Mr Seymour Dyke, aged 35, were pinned under the driving compartment with the lorry on fire. The men were burned to death in the presence of their wives, who tried hi vain to extricate them.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 207, 3 August 1931, Page 8
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77AUSTRALIAN TRAGEDY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 207, 3 August 1931, Page 8
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