I came upstairs at 9.15 a.m. and turned on Channel Nine. “Here’s Humphrey” was screening with the young presenter dressed as the Wicked Queen, and “Humphrey”, a ‘bear’, as Snow White. There was no footage of the carnage at Granville but forty-two people have already been confirmed dead.
Two programmes from the “Untamed World” series, narrated by the actor, William “Cannon” Conrad, screened from 10.00 a.m. on Channel Nine. The first was on kangaroos and the second looked into the lives of the birds of the mangrove swamps.
The death toll at 11.00 a.m. stands at fifty-seven.
At 7.00 p.m., “Willesee” featured a prostitute, of just nineteen years of age, who has been addicted to heroin — she takes it three times a day– since she was fifteen. She has been handing it out to her customers at forty dollars per capsule.
The death toll from yesterday’s disaster at Granville, already the worst in the history of the Australian railways, now stands at eighty.