BURNED TO DEATH
OCCUPANTS OF MOTOR COACH DRIVER AND SIX NATIVES A TRAGEDY NEAR ALGIERS (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) ALGIERS, July 9. (Received July 10, at 8 p.m.) Colliding with a motor car on the edge of a ravine at Constantine a motor coach crowded with natives overturned and rolled to the bottom and caught fire. The French driver and six natives were burned to death. Onlookers were helpless. Twelve other passengers are in a critical condition. FIRE TRAGEDY NEAR SYDNEY THREE CHILDREN VICTIMS SYDNEY, July 10. (Received July 11, at 0.45 a.m.) During the absence of their parents at a neighbour’s place, three children, Shirley Croke, aged nine, Winifred Croke, aged seven, and David Croke, aged five, were burned to death in a wooden hut 19 niles from Camden, last night. The parents and two elder daughters were playing cards at the neighbour’s when the fire occurred and they were unable to rescue the children owing to the flames having too great a hold.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23548, 11 July 1938, Page 9
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