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  2. RAILWAY SMASH.

    The railway disaster at Exeter, on the main Southern line, six miles from Moss Vale (reported in "The Daily Telegraph" on Saturday), occurred about twenty minutes before midnight on Friday, and caused the loss of 14 lives and injury to many passengers. ...

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  3. HEAVY FOG.

    Fog was particularly heavy on the southern mountains all Friday night. Several of the railway employees coming to Sydney on Saturday morning, after having been detained at the ...

    Article : 337 words
  4. IN THE MAIL VAN.

    Of the five mail clerks who were busy at their work of sorting letters in the mail van immediately behind the engine, the mail guard. Bray was killed. His head was crushed by ...

    Article : 370 words
  5. MARVELLOUS ESCAPES.

    GOULBURN, Saturday.--Mr. G. J. Scott, manager of the Goulburn branch of the Australian Bank of Commerce, was a passenger with Mrs. Scott, and their four children. in ...

    Article : 453 words
  6. AFTER THE WRECK.

    BOWRAL, Saturday.--One little boy had a miraculous escape. Two adults in the same compartment were killed; but, clutching, a big teddy bear tightly, tho little fellow was found ...

    Article : 467 words
  7. "I CAN'T HELP YOU."

    GOULBURN. Saturday.--Mr. Chas. Waugh, a well-known business man, of Auburn-street, gave a graphic account of his experiences. When the collision happened, he was dozing, and he ...

    Article : 215 words
  8. THE GAS CUT OFF.

    TEMORA, Saturday.--The mail train convoying the passengers who escaped injury in the railway disaster arrived at Tomora at 2.25 this afternoon. Amongst them were Messrs. W. J. ...

    Article : 486 words
  9. HOW BRAY DIED.

    There is no survivor with a sorer heart than Mr. E. J. Vindin, one of the officials in the mailvan. His mate--Alfred Bray--whom he had known since boyhood, has been killed. ...

    Article : 571 words
  10. HOW IT HAPPENED.

    From the necessarily colorless report, supplied by the railway authorities. it is impossible at present to say what was the initial error that caused the smash. The official ...

    Article : 262 words
  11. PINIONED BENEATH THE WRECKAGE.

    BOWRAL, Saturday.--Mrs. J. H. Deal, of Sutton-street, Cootamundra, is now an inmate of the Berrima District Hospital, and suffering greatly from shock. A representative of "The ...

    Article : 446 words
  12. FORTUNATE CHANGE OF CAR.

    YOUNG, Saturday.--So far as can be ascertained, all the passengers to Young escaped unhurt. Ono passenger congratulated herself upon the fact that she changed from the ...

    Article : 72 words
  13. ANXIETY IN SYDNEY.

    Throughout Saturday morning the Sydney Central Railway Station was thronged with inquirers. All were anxious to know the late of relatives or friends, the possibili- ...

    Article : 319 words
  14. "LIKE A NIGHTMARE."

    YASS, Saturday.--Mr.. J. Cusack, M.L.A. for Albury, who resides at Yuss, was a passenger by the wrecked train. He was in company with Mr. Barton and Mr. Burgess, who are also ...

    Article : 480 words
  15. DRIVER IRWIN.

    BOWRAL. Sunday,--To-day a representative of "The Daily Telegraph" sought an interview at Goulburn with P. H. Irwin, the driver of the Temora mail, but ascertained little. Mr. Irwin ...

    Article : 292 words
  16. A PREVIOUS ACCIDENT.

    Friday night's collision was the second accident in which No. 12 goods train has been concerned during the past few weeks. The previous accident occurred in the vicinity of Werai, ...

    Article : 193 words
  17. VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER.

    ALBERT BRAY, mail guard. MISS EGLINTON, teacher, Superior Public School, Granville. MRS. L. A. PARKER, West Wyalong. ...

    Article : 71 words
  18. INJURED.

    ARTHUR HEAVER. fractured arm and ribs, and severe shock. PETER CASSIMATIS, injuries to the head. LILLY EDDY. inverell. injuries to the leg, ...

    Article : 90 words
  19. MAIL-SORTER'S STORY.

    "It was enough to break a man's heart to hear the women and children sereaming." was the remark of Mr. J. F. Neville, one of The mail officers on the wrecked train. ...

    Article : 566 words
  20. MINISTERIAL STATEMENT.

    The Minister for Railways (Mr. Hoyle), interviewed by a representative of "The Daily Telegraph" yesterday, stated that it was too early for him to have received any official in- ...

    Article : 334 words
  21. RESCUES IN THE DARK.

    According to the story told by passengers by, the Cooma mail, which passed the scene of the disaster on Saturday morning. the smash must have been ter- ...

    Article : 342 words
  22. THROUGH THE BALKAN WAR

    BOWRAL, Saturday.--"I go through the Balkan War. fight many times, and take a lot of chances. I come out all right: but I am only in this country two or three days, and i am nearly ...

    Article : 362 words
  23. SUDDEN CALAMITY.

    BOWRAL. Saturday.--The Temora mail train, crowded with passengers, crashed into a standing cattle train at Exeter station at 11.40 o 'clock last night. The two middle carriages ...

    Article : 929 words
  24. A FUNERAL TRAGEDY.

    One of the most dreadful incidents of the disaster is the fatally which has fallen upon the well-known Pitts and Heaver family, of Colorado station, Wallendbeen. ...

    Article : 658 words
  25. "FATHER AND MOTHER SAFE!"

    BOWRAL, Saturday.--The news of the awful happening a little more than n dozen miles away was borne in upon the residents of this pretty little health resort--for that is what ...

    Article : 404 words
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