FLOOD DAMAGE
WASHOUTS ON RAILWAYS IN N.S.W. MEMBERS OF REPAIR GANG INJURED. THOUSAND SHEEP KILLED IN DERAILMENT. (By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright) SYDNEY, December 22. Washaways which have occurred on some New South Wales country ways due to two days’ incessant ram resulted in a stock train being derailed on Saturday between Moree and Tamworth. A thousand sheep were killed The engine driver and fir . ernal } leaped from the locomotive while it W E S ighteen of 23 railway maintenance oceeding by motor truck to the Sene of the stock train derailment were injured, some seriously, when the truck fell through a washed out road near Tamworth. Three suffered spinal injuries and two fractured skulls. Rail traffic between New South Wales and Queensland was dislocated for many hours by damage to the permanent way. Washaways in some instances were five feet deep.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1940, Page 5
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