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  2. MINE PASSENGERS KILLED AND 55 INJURED

    Anxious eyed friends and relatives of passengers who had left by the previous night's Northern mail train gathered at the Railway Commissioner's office early ...

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  3. PUBLIC GRIEF

    The following letter has been forwarded to the Minister for Railways (Mr. J. Larcombe) by his Excellency the Governor (Sir Matthew Nathan):-- ...

    Article : 621 words
  4. EARLIER DISASTERS

    Queensland had two previous big railway accidents. Probably the most disastrous until 1909 was when the Western mail train, about 10 miles on ...

    Article : 655 words
  5. CAUSE UNKNOWN

    "It is considered to be clearly an accident. There was nothing whatever wrong with the [?]ils or road. I cannot imagine how it occurred, unless ...

    Article : 327 words
  6. VICTIMS' BURIALS

    GYMPIE, Tuesday.--It is understood that the body of James Edward Rout, whose brother came to Gympie by the Rockhampton train to-night, will ...

    Article : 254 words
  7. "FLUNG UPWARD"

    On the mail train from Rockhampton, which arrived in Brisbane last night many hours late, was a returned soldier who had an amazing escape from death. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 317 words
  8. "IN GOOD ORDER"

    "The road is in good order. I walked over every foot of it, starting some distance before the marks where the waggon left the rails were first visible." ...

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  9. "FINE WORK"

    "It was one of the finest performances I have seen put up," declared the Railway Commissioner (Mr. J. W. Davidson) last night, as be told the story ...

    Article : 170 words
  10. GUARD'S STORY

    The guard who was in charge of the wrecked train returned to Brisbane by the Rockhampton mail train, which arrived at the Central Station at 7 ...

    Article : 311 words
  11. EARS CUT OFF

    All the passengers on the wrecked train who returned to Brisbane last night related tragic stories of the predicament in which they had found some ...

    Article : 173 words
  12. AFTER THE CRASH

    Although the wrecked carriages crushed to the ground with a tremendous noise and the cries of the distressed people pierced the air, at least one ...

    Article : 105 words
  13. AMBULANCE AID

    Mr. W. H. Morse, superintendent of the Metropolitan Ambulance Brigade, with three bearers, left Brisbane by the breakdown train yesterday morning for ...

    Article : 106 words
  14. MOTHERLESS BABY

    "A cloud had hidden the bright gleam of the moon when I--one of the earliest--arrived at the Gympie station. It was as a funeral pall over the dead," So ...

    Article : 191 words
  15. ALARM CORD

    Many people wondered yesterday why someone in the train did not notice that portion of it was off the rails and pull the communication cord, which would ...

    Article : 239 words
  16. "THIS ENDS ME"

    "I heard the carriage creaking all over; then it shivered, and I muttered to myself, 'Well, this ends me.' Then, before I could make out where I was ...

    Article : 677 words
  17. A COINCIDENCE

    A remarkable circumstance is that representatives of Philip Lytton's travelling theatre were on the train which was detailed in 1909, a few miles from ...

    Article : 96 words
  18. OVER THE BRIDGE

    To have been travelling in pleasant companionship with another young couple, and in a few short seconds to have seen the dead body of the woman ...

    Article : 546 words
  19. FAMOUS SHEARER INJURED.

    TOOWOOMBA, Tuesday.--Mr. Fred Zimmerle, who was injured in the railway disaster, is a native of Toowoomba, his parents being pioneers in this ...

    Article : 99 words
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    A DISTRESSING INCIDENT.--Picture of the upturned composite first and second class carriage, showing the rear portion, where a young woman was crushed to death in the lavatory, and whose body had to be cut out of the coach. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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    COMPLETELY WRECKED.--Close-up view of the complete-wreck of the baggage van. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  22. "NOT SURPRISED"

    In the course of an interview with a "Daily Mail" representative last night, Mr. T. Moroney, general secretary of the Queensland branch of the Australian ...

    Article : 234 words
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