The most tragic railway accident in the history of Western Australia occurred on the Mornington timber line, near Bunbury, in the darkness of Saturday night. Nine ...
Article : 186 wordsMr. Wilton, when approached for his version of the accident this afternoon, was obviously labouring under severe mental distress. He explained to the interviewer that ...
Article : 325 wordsThe railway authorities at Perth received advice of the accident at about 11 o'clock on Saturday night. Although the accident did not occur on a government railway, the ...
Article : 181 wordsOne of the first to arrive on the scene of the disaster on Saturday night was Mr. E. D. Edelman, of Wokalup. He was in the Wokalup Hotel awaiting the ...
Article : 371 wordsIn the absence of the Premier, who was spending the week-end in Northam, the Minister for Education (Mr. H. P. Colebatch), on behalf of the Government, ...
Article : 138 wordsThe mill hand, Joe Flynn, who was riding in the last truck of the rake at the time of the impact and miraculously escaped, said in answer to an inquiry that ...
Article : 176 wordsA timber train, consisting of a string of 26 bogey trucks and three small trucks, and drawn by a Baldwin engine named the Jubilee, left the Mornington timber mills, ...
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Advertising : 38 wordsA party of railway officials accompanied by a couple of pressmen paid a visit soon after daylight this morning to the spot on the Mornington timber line which was the ...
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Advertising : 90 wordsOne of the most tragic features of the disaster is connected with the death of the fireman of the train. Thomas Wilton. His father, Christopher Wilton, is the mill traffic ...
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Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 - 1954), Thu 11 Nov 1920, Page 11
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