There has been a horrific train crash at Granville at about 8.00 a.m. The train, travelling from Mount Victoria to Sydney’s C.B.D., apparently left the lines and crashed into an overhead traffic bridge which, in turn, plummeted on to the fourth carriage of the train, killing up to sixty or seventy people; mostly women.
I ventured upstairs at 11.30 a.m. to view hourly coverages, on TCN Channel Nine, during the western film, “Showdown”, from 1963, which stars Audie Murphy and Skip Homeier; and from 12.45 p.m., the film, ” Heller In Pink Tights” (1960), which stars Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn and Steve Forrest.
Rescue workers will be at the site of the disaster in Granville all night, trying to free victims.
Killer, Gary Gilmore, has been executed by a firing squad in Utah.
Australia was dismissed in its second innings without having added to Sunday’s score. Pakistan replied by scoring the thirty-two runs required for victory, with the loss of two wickets, and thereby drew this series of three Tests, one all. Today’s victory is only Pakistan’s second against Australia and its first on Australian soil.
Chicago has experienced its coldest day this century: minus eighteen degrees Celsius.