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 ...
Article : 823 wordsThe following letter has been forwarded to the Minister for Railways (Mr. J. Larcombe) by his Excellency the Governor (Sir Matthew Nathan):-- ...
Article : 621 wordsQueensland 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"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 wordsGYMPIE, 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 wordsOn 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"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." ...
Article : 125 words"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 wordsThe 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 wordsAll 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 wordsAlthough 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 wordsMr. W. H. Morse, superintendent of the Metropolitan Ambulance Brigade, with three bearers, left Brisbane by the breakdown train yesterday morning for ...
Article : 106 words"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 wordsMany 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"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 wordsA 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 wordsTo 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 wordsTOOWOOMBA, Tuesday.--Mr. Fred Zimmerle, who was injured in the railway disaster, is a native of Toowoomba, his parents being pioneers in this ...
Article : 99 wordsA 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]
Article : 50 wordsCOMPLETELY WRECKED.--Close-up view of the complete-wreck of the baggage van. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 21 wordsIn the course of an interview with a "Daily Mail" representative last night, Mr. T. Moroney, general secretary of the Queensland branch of the Australian ...
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The Daily Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1903; 1916 - 1926), Wed 10 Jun 1925, Page 9
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