NINE CARS PLUNGE INTO SWOLLEN CREEK.
,—♦ AT LEAST THIRTr,t:N. MOTORISTS DROWNED NEW YORK, March 31. At Vicksburg, Mississippi, a strange tragedy cost the lives of at least 13 motorists, WHO were drowned in a clear creek oayou, where floods had carried away a heavilytravelled bridge. One after another nine motor-cars plunged from trie bridge into the swollen creek. Eight persons managed to swim to wvfoty, but most were trapped in the sunken vehicles. One driver swam half-a-mile and then ran back and halted other automobiles approaching the deadly abyss.
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Otaki Mail, 3 April 1939, Page 1
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