Fatal Accident. Droken Hail Wrecks a Train
SHARON (North Dakota), Sunday. A Great Northern train was wrecked last night. Six persons were killed and thirteen injured. The disaster was due to a…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1912
1,386 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 70
Drowning Fatalities. Railway Employee's Death
News was received in Lismore yesterday afternoon of a drowning accident at Booyong, by which a young man named Walter Brown, a railway employee, lost his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Narrow Escape. Explosion on a Motor Boat. Sydney
Three men, McDonald, Richards, and Trigg were out on Hobson's Bay in a motor boat, when an explosion occurred, blowing a hole inside and burning the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road-Making Plant
FOR some time past the Tomki Shire Council have had under consideration the purchasing of a road-making plant for use in the Shire. The Engineer (Mr. T. H…
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IN order to keep page with his rapidly increasing motor traffic between Casino and Tenterfield, Mr.L. P. O'Keefe has had to purchase another car. The new car, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Refreshment Rooms
The refreshment rooms at Byron Bay and Casino stations are now under new management, Mr. J. F. Horsley, of Casino, having succeeded Mr. J. I. Smith. In…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cricketer Injured. Motor Car and Cycle Collide. Sydney
A collision occurred in Moore Park today between a motor car, containing four people, and a motor cycle, ridden by the Rev. E. F. Waddy, the well-known…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Latest Telegrams Record Tram Traffic. Sydney
Yesterday's tram traffic constituted a record 870,000 passengers being carried on the lines…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aeroplane Tests. Satisfactory Results Attained. London
In the new military noiseless Diplane trials at Aldershot, the speed attained was sixty miles an hour, and the tests showed that the propellors could be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Labourers. Minimum Wage Fixed. London
The Arbitration Board has awarded the railway workshop labourers at Horwick a minimum wage of £I, and those earning more an additional shilling…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The High Level Bridge
A MEETING of the committee to make arrangements to celebrate the opening of the High-level Bridge was held in the School of Arts on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Doubtful Creek Road
THE Shire Council has a fairly big contract before it to make the Doubtful Creek road trafficable. And the fact that the settlement in this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Road Making Plant. Rejected by the Shire Council
A special meeting of the Tomki Shire Council was held yesterday (Friday) morning for the purpose of deciding on the question whether a road making…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Team Accident. Car Runs Along the Road. Sydney
An extraordinary accident occurred in William-street this morning, when a loaded tram car, after colliding with a lorry, jumped from the rails and shot fully fifty…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Undecided. Purchasing a Road Plant. President Refuses His Casting Vote. Casino
A special meeting of the Tomki Shire Council was held to-day for the purpose of considering the proposal to purchase a road-making plant. The matter had been…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motor Accident
An accident, which fortunately was attended with less serious consequences than might have been the case, befel Mr. Douglas and Mr. A. Mullett, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cycling. Motor Cycle Record. Sydney
A motor cyclist named Yee, who left Melbourne yesterday morning, arrived in Sydney to-day, after a journey of 31 hours 19 minutes, thus establishing a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Aeroplane Smash. Accident Near Penrith. Sydney
There was a sensational aeroplane smash at Mount Druitt, near Penrith, this morning, W. E. Hart and Major Rosenthal. were flying from Penrith to Parramatta,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Train on Fire. Paris
The electric workmen's train on the Gare du Asterlitz collided with a stationary engine, and seven of the coaches were wrecked. One caught on fire. Fifty-three…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mail Robbers. Raid on a Train
REDDING (Cal.) Friday Afternoon. Two unmasked men stuck up and robbed the north-bound Orrgon express, of the Southern Pacific Railroad Co. The men…
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