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620 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 31
TWO-HUNDRED passengers had rema[?]rkable escapes from serious injury and death when the Albury Mail, speeding through the darkness at 35 miles an hour, jumped the rails and was wrecked just beyond Bowning railway station, 202 miles from Sydney, at 4.30 a.m. to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WHEN news of the crash was received at Yass, the town tram, which was on another route, was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SPLINTERED CARS in Bowning derailment of Albury Mail. -- Above[?] Air view of wreckage. showing the complete splintering of the car in which casualties occurred. Parts of shattered car can be seen strewn beside the line and picture shows the bogey. separated from the undercarriage of damaged car and left alongside it. One of the derailed carnages missed tenls shown, in which workmen slept, by a few feet. Right! Another view. showing carriage in which passengers were injured (at right). Next it is the sleeping car, lying on its side. PARTITIONS SMASHED TO MATCHWOOD. -- The picture on the left gives another view of the smashed…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Ellison Thornley Girdham, 37, laborer, one of the men charged with the alleged attempt to bomb the Purr Pull pertol tanks at Glebe on January 7, gave evidence for the Crown yesterday at the Sydney Quarter Sessions…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cathay leaves Lond July 28, Marseilles Aug. 4, Pt. Sudan 9, Aden 13, Bombay 17, Colombo 20; due Frem 29, Adel Sept. 3, Melb 4, Syd 7, Bris 11…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THERE have been such wholesale sackings on the railways and such outrageous economies that the Albury railway smash raises the question, despite protests to the contrary by the Chief Commissioner, whether the safety of rail travel is being overrated. IN its frantic endeavors to balance Budgets the Government may have overstepped the mark, and now that attention has been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"FRAME-UP" allegations of an amazing nature were made at the Sydney Quarter Sessions last week when judge and jury…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →The auxiliary ketch Tonka II., in charge of Charles Volskow and with four others on board, left Mackay over a week ago on a fishing voyage…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Charged with under-estimating crops, M. Zalogin. Director of the Odessa Grain Trust, and three State farm officials have been sentenced to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- Two Citizen Air Force trainees had remarkable escapes when a Westland-Wapiti…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →News of the total wreck of the ketch Tonka reached Mackay to-night when one of two search boats returned with two members of the Tonka crew. Three other members of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The two Lithuanian airmen, Stephen Darius and Stanley Girenas, who left Floyd Bennett…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Charged with under-estimating crops, M. Zalogin. Director of the Odessa Grain Trust, and three State farm officials have been sentenced to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Only two men, the Lithuanian fliers, Stephen Darius and Stanley Girenas, were killed when their plane, in which they were flying from New…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The public travels, the public pays, and the public owns the railways. The public gets killed or maimed in a railway smash. It is the public right to hear the evidence in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An arrival from Bluff yesterday, the WAIKOUAITI, which berthed at Margaret Street Wharf…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THROWN into the water when the sid of their boat was stove in by a huge wave and the craft sank beneath their…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →They talk about the "silent Navy"; but when it comes to smothering up the sea is not in it with the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Maitland."—The "Maitland" was wrecked off Cape Three Points, on Mky 6, 1898. She was a paddle-wheel steamer of 555 tons, and was bound from Sydney to Newcastle at the…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Coming up Port Phillip Bay with a cargo of sugar to-day, the Melbourne Steamship Company's vessel, Lowana, went aground on a…
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