Main Street, Tully, c 1938

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

Taken from Cairns Post, Tuesday 6 September 1932:

TULLY COLLISION.

LOCO. AND TRUCK.

IN MAIN STREET.

TULLY, September 5.
Mr. John Maher, cane farmer, of Euramo, and Mr. D. Jorgenson, one of the principals of Scholss and Co., general merchants, Tully, had a miraculous escape from seroius injury when a sugar mill loco crashed into a motor truck in which they were riding, in the main street early this morning.

“DID NOT OBSERVE.”

Jorgenson did not observe the oncoming loco until the vehicle was just astride the line. The impact carried the truck within a few yards of the catte grid before the engine was brought to a standstill. Jorgenson was taken to hospital by the ambulance, having sustained facial lacerations and injuries to the left hand. Maher, who was nearest the engine, escaped with minor injuries.

“VERY WARM.”

This is the fourth accident of a similar nature, and the danger of the tramline

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