In the grey obscurity of a thick fog which overhung Melbourne this morning a dreadful disaster took place at the Richmond Railway Station. A train from Brighton ...
Article : 191 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) had just reached his office this morning when he was apprised of the Richmond disaster by a messenger of the Treasury, who had been ...
Article : 133 wordsA glance at the shattered carriage where Mr. V. Scott, of Shoobra road, Elsternwick, occupied a seat in the first train made it seem impossible that he should have ...
Article : 378 words"Frank Shannon was his name," said a bystander. "Yes," went on Mr. Mulholland, "he stood it well, and when we got him free he ...
Article : 182 wordsTwo signalmen were on duty at Richmond when the disaster occurred. They were J. Bull and J. Z. Mullens. Both men assert unhesitatingly that the distant and ...
Article : 321 wordsMr. L. Herman (manager of the Maasey-Harris Cycle Works) was a passenger from Balaclava in the train from Elsternwick. He said:—"I was in a first-class smoking ...
Article : 328 wordsThe scene at the morgue was a painful one. The personal effects of those who had been killed in many cases disclosed their Identity, but it was a long time before the ...
Article : 137 wordsWhen interviewed this afternoon the Premier (Mr. Murray) said:—"It is a most deplorable event, and one which must sadden the whole community. It cannot but ...
Article : 174 wordsThe wrecked trains occupied the whole length of the Brighton platform of the Richmond Station. The Brighton engine was driven several feel beyond the city end of ...
Article : 417 wordsMr. Horace Pepperell said he was in the second carriage from the engine of the Elsternwick train, and in the last compartment. "The fog was very thick," said Mr. ...
Article : 227 wordsAmong the patients treated by Dr. Welghall to-day was Miss Reddish, of Brighton, who has had a particularly trying experience of railway travelling. She was in one ...
Article : 87 words"There were quite enough of us there," said a medical man when his work at the station was over. The nurse, and the ambulance men ...
Article : 109 wordsThere was a lack of tools, and rescue workers, therefore, experienced difficulties. Despite the lesson taught by the Braybrook disaster the trains which collided were ...
Article : 571 wordsIt is feared by the railway officials that he rolling stock concerned in the accident has suffered damage to the extent of £1,000. This is only a ...
Article : 69 wordsWhen the earlier bulletins were posted showing "C. B. Smith, young man, address unknown," among the list of killed the intimation of the disaster was ...
Article : 221 wordsThe engine of the second Elsternwick train was driven by John Melville. When seen a few minutes after the accident he was bleeding freely from a cut in the ...
Article : 367 wordsIn an interview a city banker said:—"I was seated in the first smoker next to the engine of the Elsternwick train. The train travelled slower than usual, and the stone ...
Article : 181 wordsOne thing which impressed those engaged in ministering to the injured was the fortitude displayed by the sufferers. "When I was free to look around me," ...
Article : 94 wordsFor a time the fog mercifully hid the grim horrors it had grim horrors it had caused. Then it lifted, and the sun showed mutilated bodies stretched on the permanent way and the ...
Article : 218 wordsMr. Norman Holt, a young man living at Balaclava, was taken to the hospital suffering from an injury to a foot. His story was:—"I was in the second ...
Article : 385 wordsThe fog began to lift almost immediately after the accident. People in the streets of Richmond heard the crash and rushed to the station. The train on the Caulfield ...
Article : 255 wordsFollowing is the list of those killed:— BRADSHAW, Leonard, 43 years, ledger keeper, residing at Marlton crescent. St. Kilda, and employed by Messrs. Beath ...
Article : 484 wordsIn view of all the circumstances the wonder is not that the death-roll was so great, but that it was not greater. Two trains were running in the full tide of ...
Article : 1,091 wordsAn engineering expert connected with a well-known city firm was in the accident owing to his love of sunshine, and he came out of it uninjured because he sat will ...
Article : 332 wordsExactly now the accident occurred has not yet been determined. The time records seem to show that from the time the Brighton train left the South Yarra ...
Article : 185 wordsThe driver of the first train (P. Allen), in an interview, said:—"I cannot say anything about the accident itself. We were just standing here at the platform, and had ...
Article : 176 wordsConfusion spread everywhere. It was nerve-racking. People were too horror-stricken to do anything but run wildly or stand mute, as they gazed with staring ...
Article : 131 wordsAmong the many who had a fortunate escape was Mr. A. G. Kelson. He joined the Elsternwick train at Prahran. As he hurried along to get a compartment he ...
Article : 389 wordsMiss Essie Knox, of Windsor, who was injured in the collision, was interviewed in the Melbourne Hospital. She was a passenger in the Elsternwick train and was ...
Article : 245 wordsFor the present the fog must be set down as the cause. It was so dense that the enginemen could not see the signals. The driver of the first train was gazing along ...
Article : 152 wordsDoctors had been telephoned for in every direction, and from all points they gathered to the station, and set to work. Nursed bandaged wounds and broken ...
Article : 160 wordsThe fireman of the first train, P. Gelman, stated:—"Our engine was driven forward about its own length by the force of the collision, but I did not feel much of ...
Article : 75 words"The Australian none is still there," said an engineer who sat in the carriage in which the engine ended its destroyed course. "All around me were men with ...
Article : 211 wordsThe question of whether there were sufficient fog signalmen on duty was raised by enginemen and others to-day. Considerable difficulty was experienced in ...
Article : 255 wordsOutside of the Richmond Railway Station cabs and motor cars and bicycles collected, while hushed crowds gathered in the streets. Troopers were required to ...
Article : 179 wordsIt was a smoking compartment. A man was lying dead with the ash of his cigar lying on his coat. His breath had left his mody at the same moment as the ash had ...
Article : 136 wordsWhen the Governor (Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael) heard of the accident he sent the following telegram to the Chief Railway Commissioner (Mr. Tait):—"The ...
Article : 92 wordsThe passengers from the suburban trains that reached the Central Station a few minutes after 10 o'clock were making for the Swanston street entrance, when they ...
Article : 217 wordsIn the 8.20 train from Brighton all the carriages were of the new lengthened bogie type, 73 ft. long, except the second car from the engine. That one was small and ...
Article : 95 wordsFrom the rums of a first-class compartment in the foremost train passenger after passenger had been extricated, but there was still one more, left almost hidden from ...
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Advertising : 55 wordsWhen the Commissioner for Railways were approached for a statement in relation to the catastrophe, the Chief Commissioner (Mr. Tait), speaking on behalf of his ...
Article : 478 wordsIn the light of the disaster the following instructions to fog signalmen issued by the Railway Department are of interest:—"If fog signalling for a distant signal, he ...
Article : 333 wordsIn the words of Dr. Charles Ryan (chief railway medical officer) the celerity with which the doctors, nurses, ambulance men, and emergency accessories were on the ...
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Advertising : 62 wordsIt appears that by 25 minutes to 10 36 doctors had been called, apart from distress messages for ambulance and nurses, and to hospitals by motor buggy [?] ...
Article : 154 wordsThe distracted brother, the anxious father, came with stammering tongues and trembling lips to learn of the fate of sister, of brother, daughter, or son. There ...
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Advertising : 56 wordsThe task of getting the killed and injured from the smashed up carriage was not completed for about an hour and a half ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Tue 19 Jul 1910, Page 7
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