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Detailed lists, results, guides : 859 wordsA very clear account of what happened to the first train, namely, the 8.20 from Brighton Beach, is given by Norman M'Cance, a young journalist, who travelled ...
Article : 351 wordsThe fog signaller sent to the "distant" signal, between South Yarra and Richmond,was E. Emmett, the night watchman employed at the Richmond station. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe first anxiety of the station staff after the collision Was to see to the injured, and urgent telephone message were despatched for aid. The Railways ...
Article : 235 wordsDriver T. Allan and R. Gilman, his fireman, were unable to throw much light on the accident. Driver Allan stated that he had, owing to the thick fog, to drive very ...
Article : 175 wordsNo departmental inquiry will be held until the Coroner's inquest is completed. The department will be represented at the inquest, and will later hold an inquiry into ...
Article : 76 wordsThe driver of the Elsternwick train, John Melville, received a severe shaking, and also sustained a nasty cut on the forehead through being bumped against the ...
Article : 422 wordsMr. Reginald Burton, a young man living at Kendall-street, St. Kilda, was one of those pinned down in the third compartment of the last carriage in the Brighton ...
Article : 880 wordsAn extraordinary escape was experienced by a young man named Henry W. Ivory, an employe of D. and W. Murray Ltd., of Flinders-lane, who resides with his ...
Article : 293 words"Had no fog signals been set?" was the first question confronting the investigator into the cause of the accident. The railway officials answered the question ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 938 wordsIn the afternoon Mr. Tait, chairman of the Railway Commissioners, made the following statement to a representative of "The Age":-- ...
Article : 654 wordsAs each train crowded with business people from the eastern suburbs passed the scene of the disaster the news spread rapidly through the city. When the ...
Article : 530 wordsA set regulations and other instructions for the use of fog Signalmen has recently been issued by the department in pamphlet form. These provide that ...
Article : 597 wordsThe first intimation of the disaster reached the superintendent of the Melbourne Hospital (Dr. Mackay) through a private source only twenty minutes before ...
Article : 305 wordsMr. C. Barnes, a young clerk, who was travelling in to his employment in the city, was seated in a carriage near the end of the later train. His account was:-- ...
Article : 220 wordsA peculiar and unenviable distinction, has been achieved by Miss Reddish, of Parliament-street, North Brighton, who is suffering from shock and injuries to the back. ...
Article : 55 wordsIn the course of an interview with a representative of "The Age,"Fireman James Burke, of the Elsternwick train, confirmed the statement of Driver Melville as to ...
Article : 386 wordsErnest Lawry, of Geelong, who was on board the damaged train in the accident at Richmond, and escaped unhurt, was also a passenger on one of the trains in the ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. C. Scott, a young city clerk, was a passenger by the leading train from Brighton. His story was:--"I think, though I am not certain, that our train was just on ...
Article : 253 wordsWith a view of positively fixing the responsibility of the disaster, the services of the Criminal Investigation Office were sought. Superintendent Gleeson instructed ...
Article : 337 wordsThe trains were such as Melbourne residents travel in daily--smoking cars at each end, first class cars next them, and in the middle obsolete second class ...
Article : 481 wordsMaurice Egan, a schoolboy, residing at Jervois-street, Balaclava, had a rather lucky escape from serious injury. He said was in the third or fourth compartment. ...
Article : 155 wordsThe station master at Richmond, Mr. H. Oliphant, was engaged in signalling work on No. 3 platform at the time of the accident. He had indicated to the men ...
Article : 197 wordsPassengers in the second train who were in the carriages which remained sound received a violent shaking, although they escaped serious, injury. Mr. M. H. ...
Article : 250 wordsThe Morgue, with the mangled bodies stretched out upon the slate slabs, presented a dreadful sight. The bodies lay as they had been dug out of the mass of wood ...
Article : 411 wordsSpecial instructions are given in the regulations for the work of enginemen in foggy weather. It is laid down that "the absence of a signal at a place where a ...
Article : 198 wordsSignalman William Bull, who was in charge of the signal box at Richmond, said he would not like to say who was to blame for the accident, but on one point he could ...
Article : 384 words"I was in a second class compartment in the first train," said Mr. T. K. Chapman, of Evelyn-street, Balaclava. ''We slopped about three and a half or four ...
Article : 264 wordsMr. Tait visited the hospitals late in the afternoon, and expressed the sympathy of the Commissioners with the Sufferer's from the disaster. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe three men primarily concerned in the disaster were the signalmen at Richmond arid South Yarra, and the engine driver of the second train. If the signals ...
Article : 249 wordsEdward Emmett, night watchman in charge the Richmond station, states that he took two fog signals in front of each of the trains yesterday morning 30 ...
Article : 89 wordsMany of the injured passengers were taken to Mr. J. H. Smith's chemist shop in Swan-street. It is near the station, and proved an invaluable resort in such an ...
Article : 502 wordsMr. L. Herman, manager for the Massey- Harris Company, who was a passenger, by the second (the Elsternwick) train, said:-- I think it was just on 8.13 when my train ...
Article : 401 wordsGuard Michael T. Davitt of the first train, when seen shortly after the accident said he was unable to explain its ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 19 Jul 1910, Page 8
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