Not an Accident
"War is not accidental, it is not a sin as priest and parson would have us believe (sermonising on patriotism, humanity and peace is no worse than…
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Wall Crashes City Railway Accident Three Men Hurt
With a roar of falling masonry a stone wall collapsed at the Bathurststreet intersection of the city railway works at about 10.15 a.m. to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Motor Car Accident. Wagga
A motor car accident occurred last [?] whon a chaff buyer. Mr. MacCorquodale, [?] ing a Dodge car, came into a boad-on [?] sion with an electric light pole. He [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Engineer Drowned. Fatality at Wallacia. Penrith
George Budd, aged about 86 years, was drowned in the Nepean at Wallacia to-day, in sight of his wife and three children. He was staying at Wallacia for the holidays. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Child Drowned
Charles Roy Horwood, aged 6 of Warren's wharf, Bayview, was drowned near the wharf yesterday. Later his body was recovered in 5ft. of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Collision. Near Mortuary Station. Nineteen People Injured. Two Suburban Trains
A railway collision occurred at 6.30 o'clock last night almost opposite the Mortuary Station at Regent-street, on the Sydney side of the Redfern tunnel, or what is known as the bottle-neek…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Drowned at Bayview
Charles Roy Horwood (61, who [?] at Bayview, was playing near Warren's Wharf yesterday, when he [?] into the water, and his body was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Teacher Drowned Brisbane
Miss Lake. 13, school teacher at Toowoomba, was drowned while bathing in a pool of water yesterday at Stanthorpe…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Removing the Injured
The task of removing the injured from the smashed carriages was extremely difficult, but ambulance officers, assisted by railway employees,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miner Injured. Lithgow
A miner named Dan O'Dea, employed at the railway colliery, was injured this morning through a fall of tops. He received injuries to the head and neck. The ambulance took…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Railway Collision Near the Central Station
VIEW OF THE DAMAGED AND DERAILED CARRIAGES SHORTLY AFTER THE IMPACT…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Injured. in Sydney Hospital
HAROLD RICHARDS, aged 28 years, Ireland street, Burwood, compound fracture of both legs. Critical. THOMAS FITTON, aged 66 years, Concord,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Workmen Injured. Wall Collapses. City Railway Works
Three men employed on the construction of the city railway were injured yesterday morning when a stone wall at the Bathurst-street…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fall of Tops Lithgow Miner Injured Lithgow
A miner named Dan O'Dea, employed at the Railway colliery, was injured this morning owing to a fall of tops. He received injuries to the head and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Drowned Before Eyes of Wife and Children Nepean River Tragedy Penrith
The third drowning accident in the Nepean River within a few weeks occurred at Wallacia to-day, when a man was drowned before…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Eighteen Are Injured in Great Railway Smash Nearly an Awful Disaster Train C Ut in Halves Gallant Rescuers to Scene Brave Burwood Man in Agony for an Hour
AS THE RESULT of a train smash opposite the Mortuary Chapel, just outside the Central Railway Station, last night, at 6.47, eighteen persons were injured, one seriously…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Previous Accidents. Redfern Disaster of 1894
During the seventy years of the existence of the New South Wales railways, the service has been comparatively free from serious disasters. It is a singular fact, however, that…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cause of Accident. Official Statement
At 10 o'clock last night, the Secretary for Railways (Mr. W. J. Morris) made the following official statement of the occurrence:- "The 6-13 p.m. empty carriage train from…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Where the Accident Occurred
The diagram shows the section of the network of railway lines running into the Central Station at the point where the accident accurred. A train from the Contral Station travelled along the down suburban line, and was crossing over to the down main line near the signals almost oppasite the Mortuary Platform at…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →World's Safety Record Percentage of Accidents
New South Wales holds the world's record for the small number of serious railway accidents to the number of passengers carried. Throughout the…
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