Sensational Accident. Live Electric Wires. Three Horses Killed. Sydney
Northern Star · Thursday 23 April 1908 · page 3
A sensational accident occurred in Castlereagh-street this afternoon, when a huge crane used in excavations suddenly fellacross the telegraph wires, smashing them…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →References to Vtctorian Railway Accident. London
Northern Star · Thursday 23 April 1908 · page 3
Newspapers make sympathe [?] references to the Melbourne railway accident…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Victorian. Railway Disaster. Roll of Injured Increased. the Work of Rescue. Dreadful Scenes. Corrected Names of Deaths. Fireman Finds Two Sisters Dead. Train Drivers and Fireman Interviewed. Unaccountable Delay of Relief. Melbourne
Northern Star · Thursday 23 April 1908 · page 3
Most harrowing details of the Braybrook disaster are published. The total death roll is 43 while 130 others are injured, many, it is feared, fatally…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Terrible Railway Disaster in Victoria. Forty-three Persons Killed. Many Others Injured. Melbourne
The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 24 April 1908 · page 8
A DREADFUL railway accident occurred late last night at Braybrook Junction, about seven miles from Melbourne, where the Ballarat and Bendigo lines meet. A…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Murrurundi Railway Accident
The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 24 April 1908 · page 7
THE more seriously injured of the passengers in the railway accident at Murrurundi, who are now in the local hospital, are getting on fairly well…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two Terrible Railway Accidents. At Murrurundi
The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 24 April 1908 · page 2
A SERIOUS railway accident happened at Murrurundi early on Good Friday morning, the mail train from Sydney to Glen Innes. colliding with, tho first division of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Statement by Chief Commissioner Tait. If Instructions [?]An Been Obeyfin Accident Could Not Have Happened. Melbourne
Northern Star · Friday 24 April 1908 · page 3
Mr. Tait, chief Railway Commissioner, has made an important statement bearing upon the case of the accident. He states that the station master at Sunshine…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another Train Collision. Shunting Accident to Adelaide Express. Melbourne
Northern Star · Saturday 25 April 1908 · page 7
The Adelaide express reached Ballarat an hour late on Wednesday evening owing to a mishap at Murray bridge At the latter place the train was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An Injured Leg. Sydney
Northern Star · Saturday 25 April 1908 · page 7
Inspector Dewer was badly Injured at Penrith owing to a train running over his left leg, which will probably have to be amputated…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Murrurundi Railway Accident
The Byron Bay Record · Saturday 25 April 1908 · page 9
Re the railway smash which occurred on Good Friday, 17th inst., Mr. Waddell, the Treasurer states he lias received a report from the Chief Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Accident
Northern Star · Saturday 25 April 1908 · page 4
Robert Martin, a married man, had his right thumb cut with a saw at Nimbin mill through slipping down, on Thursday. He was taken to Lismore Hospital and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murrurundi Railway Accident. Special Board of Inquiry. Sydney
Northern Star · Saturday 25 April 1908 · page 7
The special Board of Inquiry into the Murrurundi collision consists of Mr Wi[?]tshire (Chairman) with Mr. Dunbar, Traffic Manager of the Queensland railways…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Trade Unions Conference. a Pacific Stand. the Cause of Accidents. Sydney
Northern Star · Saturday 25 April 1908 · page 7
At the Trades Union Conference to-day it, was announced that the Labour Council's recommendation to rely on the strike for the redress of grievance had been defeated…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Railway Accident. List of Injured Still Increasing. Melbourne
Northern Star · Monday 27 April 1908 · page 2
Thirty-three additional names have been added to the [?] of the injured in connection with the Sunshine disaster, bringing the [?] lost to 315…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Cruiser Sunk. Beached in Twenty Minutes. Three Drowned. London
Northern Star · Monday 27 April 1908 · page 3
When the blizzard was at its height on Saturday afternoon the American liner St. Paul, outward bound from Southampton to New York, crashed into the port side of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Coalmine Accident. Sydney
Northern Star · Monday 27 April 1908 · page 3
A fall of coall in a mine at Maramar[?] N.Z., has entombed three men. One man, named Ferguson, was killed outright, and the other two badly injured…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another Railway Collision
The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 28 April 1908 · page 3
THE Adelaide express was over one hour late in arriving in Ballarat on Wednesday morning, en route to Melbourne. It transpires that the late…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An Inventor Injured
Northern Star · Tuesday 28 April 1908 · page 3
One of the victims of the railway disaster is Georgo Smith Morrison, of Northcote, who lies in the Melbourne Hospital in a critical condition. Morrison recently…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Found Drowned. Manager of the Pastoral Finance Association. Sydney
Northern Star · Tuesday 28 April 1908 · page 3
Yesterday morning the dead body of Thomas C. Boyd, manager of the Pastoral and Finance Association, was found floating in the water off Kirribilli Point…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About Railway Accidents
The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 28 April 1908 · page 3
THE "S.M. Herald" has been interviewing Mr. Hollis, M.L.A., who is secretary of the railway organisations, on the subject…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →