WIVES SEE HUSBANDS DIF
OVERTURNED LORRY AFIRE
FAMILIES ESCAPE IN CRASH
MEN PINNED UNDER CAB
By Telegraph—Press Assn.*—Copyright. Rec. 1.10 a.m. Sydney, July 31.
A motor-lorry containing two families going for a week-end in the country ' overturned on the southern road between Daw and The Oaks. The two wives and seyen children were thrown clear unharmed but the husbands, John Milligan, aged 35, and Seymour Dyke, aged 35, were pinned under the driving compartment while the lorry blazed.
The men were burned to death in the presence of their wives, who tried hr vain to extricate them.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 August 1931, Page 7
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