AUSTRALIAN NEWS
CAR CAUGHT IN FLOOD SIX PEOPLE DROWNED ADELAIDE, October 21. A motor car containing six people was overwhelmed by flood water in a creek near Quorn, and was overturned. It is believed that all the occupants were drowned. They were: Harry Crocombe, his daughters (Gertrude, aged 24, and Clarice, aged 27), Harry Crocombe (twin of Gertrude), Miss Stove and Miss Davis. Three bodies, which are believed to be those of Gertrude, Clarice and Harry Crocombe, jun., were recovered. The car was crossing a creek bed, which is usually dry, when a wall of water three feet high swept down and carried the car downstream. THE “BATH-TUB SAILOR” BRISBANE. October 21. Guaranteed employment by a business man in Dunedin, Bertil Hjelmstrorn, the “ bath-tub sailor,” leaves by the auxiliary vacht Morewa for New Zealand to-day.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22708, 22 October 1935, Page 9
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