yesterday afternoon the 5.40 express from Melbourne to Brighton the 5.30 ordinary train came into collision near the Windsor station. The accident arose from a neglect of ...
Article : 2,941 wordsImmediately the authorities at the Alfred Hospital were apprised of the accident, every possible arrangement was made, under the direction of Dr. Joske, the resident medical ...
Article : 1,300 wordsMr. Speight appears to have a peculiar liability to hairbreadth escapes in railway accidents. He was a passenger in the train which narrowly escaped colliding with ...
Article : 7,235 wordsTo the frequent passenger on the south suburban railway system, none of the marked changes of recent years has been more striking than the rapidity ...
Article : 668 wordsMr. E. S. Parkes, superintendent of the Bank of Australasia, who was in the ordinary tram in the last carriage but one, was dreadfully injured. Both his legs were broken, ...
Article : 163 wordsThe news of the disaster was soon abroad, and in a short spare a large body of police had assembled from the local station, St. Kilda, South Melbourne, East Melbourne, ...
Article : 354 wordsThe bodies of four of the killed were conveyed to the Melbourne morgue, in which there were already two corpses, and the stands grouned under their ghastly burdens. ...
Article : 385 wordsThere have been three disastrous accidents on the Victorian railways within recent years previous to the one reported this morning. The first noteworthy one was the Jolimont ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 12 May 1887, Page 6
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