How small are the things with which we concern ourselves in daily life, in the face of such disasters as that which New South Wales now mourns. We go our ways, giving ...
Article : 429 wordsStrange as it may seem, for those who first came upon the scene there was a feeling of disappointment. For those who expected a spectacle, there was none. Fog held everything in its ...
Article : 1,681 wordsA frightful loss of life in one family was that of the family of Heaver, which in the accident lost the father, a daughter, and a daughter-in-law. while a son was seriously ...
Article : 406 wordsA semi-official statement in the "Norddeutscher Allegemeine Zeitung" ridicules the threat of the Russian "Bourse Gazettte" that in the event of war Russia would take the ...
Article : 127 wordsCaptain White, who in November last year announced his intention of drilling the Dublin strikers, was the main figure in a riot to-day. Armed with a blackthorn cudgel, he headed a ...
Article : 117 wordsWith all their appalling horror, the long records of railway disaster would read much less terribly if it were not for the frightful description, "the carriages were telescoped !" Where ...
Article : 542 wordsM. Iwahara, managing director of the Mirsui Bushan Kaisha Shipping Company, and director of the Oji Paper Company, has been arrested in connection with the navy scandals. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe "Germania" alleges that the warlike preparations in which Russia is now engaged are directed entirely against Austria. VIENNA, Friday Night. ...
Article : 114 wordsInvestigation of the accounts of the Hamburg-South America line reveal defalcations to the amount of £400,000. The frauds have been going on over a period ...
Article : 52 wordsNineteen Nationalists were absent from Thursday's critical division in the House of Commons. Several went to Ireland without leave. ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. F. Carew, one of the postal officials at Parramatta, who commenced his annual leave on Friday, and had left for the South, had an awful experience when the smash occurred. He ...
Article : 113 wordsThe inquiry by the House of Lords committee into the transactions in the shares of the American Marconi Company by Lord Murray, while he was Chief Liberal whip, opened ...
Article : 102 wordsMrs. Craig, whose son-in-law and daughter (Mr. and Mrs. Minnis) are among the dead, lives in Wilson-street, Newtown. Speaking to a "Sunday Times" reporter at Bowral last ...
Article : 171 wordsAlthough the break-down gang had done its Work well in clearing away the greater portion of the debris at the scene of the disaster, yet even now one can find sufficient evidence of the ...
Article : 737 wordsMrs. Drummond's suffragette meeting held in Ulster Hall, Belfast, yesterday was a very disorderly affair. Anger was aroused when Miss Dorothy ...
Article : 105 wordsThere were many inquiries from the country concerning persons who were supposed to be on the ill-fated train. Several of those inquired for were not on the train. "Not among the ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Exeter disaster, in point of view of the direct loss of life, is one of the most severe of any that have occurred in New South Wales, though other collisions and accidents have been ...
Article : 459 wordsThe naval manoeuvres which will take place in the Mediterranean in May, will be on a grand scale. Eighty-five battleships and cruisers, 50 ...
Article : 49 wordsGeneral Alabrista's forces mutinied under the leadership of three of his officers, and murdered their commander. The officers who escaped mobilised a punitive ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Acting-Chief Commissioner, Mr. Harper, last night made the following statement :— "We have identified the fourteen persons who were killed. Five of the persons injured are ...
Article : 59 wordsWhen a fire broke out in an Italian boarding house wherein there were 50 occupants, a panic followed. The police were forced to use their clubs ...
Article : 65 wordsMiss Eglington, who is among the killed, was a school teacher attached to the Granville Public School. She has resided with Mrs. Hyslop in Daniel-street, Granville, for the past twelve ...
Article : 64 wordsAdvices from Philippopolis state that Sadi[?] Bey, a Turkish Liberal, had been attacked is the street and stabbed with a knife in the right side, supposedly by an emissary of ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. Hodgson, Superintendent of Lines, who visited the scene of the accident by special train, said last night that there was little for him to say for publication. The departmental ...
Article : 61 wordsLater details indicate that there were many miraculous escapes. Some of the passengers saved themselves by lying on the floor. One man owes his life to the fact that he was ...
Article : 53 words"Sporting Life," discussing rowing practice at Putney, says that, compared with the Oxonians' ponderous, jerky, and irregular movements, those of the Cantabs are the very essence of ...
Article : 77 wordsThe U.S.A. Senate Lobbying Investigation Committee has learned from witnesses that the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace spent £6000 in promoting the repeal to the ...
Article : 52 wordsAlfred Charles Bray, one of the victims of the accident, had been in the railway service about 25 years, and was a postal guard on the "Southern lines for many years, prior to his death. ...
Article : 388 wordsSenior Sergeant Moroney, of Bowral, was among those who worked so laborously at the gruesome task of extricating the bodies. "We bad plenty of axes, saws, hammers, and so on," ...
Article : 72 wordsA fortnight's notice has been given on behalf of 170,000 Yorkshire miners in connection with the fixture of a minimum wage. The Conciliation Board discussed the matter, and then ...
Article : 44 wordsH.M.S. Eclipse, accompanied by the Australian submarines, arrived here last night, after a good passage, despite the heavy seas and an adverse wind. ...
Article : 30 wordsThree accidents occurred at the Clyde Railway Yards on Friday night. The first was when an engine smashed into a truck and derailed it. Later on two trucks were telescoped, and early ...
Article : 388 wordsIt is understood that the arrangement of the doomed train was as follows :—Engine and tender, mail van, and five carriages. The two immediately behind the mail van were ...
Article : 128 wordsThe premises used as chambers and offices, over Marshall Bros. (chemists), De Loca's. (fruiterers), and Millard's (mercers), shops in Park-street, were damaged by fire yesterday ...
Article : 132 wordsThe scores at the close of last night's play in the championship billiard game between Reece and Stevenson were as follow : Stevenson 7500, Reece 7010. ...
Article : 49 wordsAs soon as the news of the disaster became known, breakdown gangs were despatched from Goulburn and Moss Vale, while a special train from, Sydney conveyed a number of ...
Article : 169 wordsRenter cables from Sicily that Signor Marconi has concluded a successful series of tests of his new wireless telephone between warships. ...
Article : 29 wordsAll day yesterday there was a constant stream of visitors and relatives of the dead to the Berrima District Cottage Hospital. As life was pronounced extinct the bodies ...
Article : 71 wordsClifton Gardens were en fete yesterday afternoon and evening, the occasion being a garden, party and continental tinder the auspices of the N.S. Wales Branch of the St. John Ambulance ...
Article : 105 wordsThe annual report of the Norddeutscher Lloyd Steamship Company, states that the main Australian line, which, under the existing contracts, is carried on at a loss, will be ...
Article : 61 wordsHow the drivers [?]d firemen on both engines escaped injury is inexplicable, but they probably, owe their escape to the fact that both engines remained on the metals after the ...
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Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), Sun 15 Mar 1914, Page 9
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