TWENTY-FIVE KILLED

Grey River Argus, 11 May 1943, Page 3

TWENTY-FIVE KILLED

AUSTRALIAN CROSSING SMASH SYDNEY, May 10.

Twenty-three Australian soldiers one servicewoman and a bus driver, were killed in a night collision between a bus and locomotive near the Albury junction of the New South Wales and Victoria State railway systems. Ten other soldiers and two servicewomen are in the hospital, some of them in a serious condition. The smash was the worst level crossing disaster to have occurred in Australia. Working by flares, doctors and ambulance men performed yrgent operations on the spot and saved the fives of several injured, who were in danger of bleeding to death. Amputations were necessary in some cases to free victims from beneath the engine. < Twenty were killed instantly and five died later in the hospitael. Eye witnesses of the tragedy said that the bodies of the victims were piled on each other. Some were under the engine which was derailed.