THE MURULLA RAILWAY DISASTER
Twenty-seven people lost their lives and 42 injured as a result of a midnight train collision in the Upper Hunter Valley on Sept. 13, 1926 near Murrurundi, New South Wales. Breaking away from a goods train at Murulla, four cars laden with wool dashed backwards down a gradient and crashed into the oncoming north-west mail train from Moree to Sydney. Many of the passengers were children returning to school from holiday. Sometimes referred to as the Blandford railway accident, as the crash occurred before the community of Brandford,in an area bordered by both Brandford and Murulla districts.
Common law wife of Frank Garland for 13 years.
PERSONAL PARTICULARS
. . . The last body identified was that of Mrs. Elizabeth Garland, who had been employed at Coomoe Coomoe station, Quirindi, until Monday, and who was on her any to join her husband in Sydney. Her husband, who had been working at Berida station, Curban, has not yet been located, and in, tho absence of a communication from him, the interment will take place to-day at Murrarmadi. J. R. Mockridge, whose identity wae also established last night, is a commercial traveller, and last lived in Queensland. His relatives live in New Zealand. The burial will take place in Sydney to-day. Only three bodies, including that of Mrs. Garland, now remain at Murrurundi. The funerals of Miss Fripp and Peter Vagianis will take place there to-day.
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW)
Thursday 16 September 1926
WOMAN HE LOVED
Unnecessary Fear of the Law
A LONG KEPT SECRET
THE bitterness of the tragedy of the Murulla railway smash was intensified for Frank Garland, who lost the woman he loved in the accident. He knew her by her auburn hair, by a scar on the left thumbnail, and by a mole; the grinding steel and iron had otherwise crushed her poor body beyond recognition. When called to identify her as his wife Elizabeth Garland, he did so. He signed a statement for the police, stating who he was, a butcher employed on Berilda station near Gllgandra, and how long he had been married. Sad and alone he returned to Gilgandra. Then misgiving seized him. . . . Her sister is Mrs. Walter Hatton, 6 Avenue Park street, Maryhill, Glasgow. "I can only plead my love for her," wrote Garland, "as she was a good woman, reepected wherever she went, and my agony of mind. I am ready and willing to accept my punishment. I would have come
and surrendered myself only I had not the money." Garland also forwarded a cheque for £44/14/, which had been paid for the woman's wages on the station, pointing out that the money was legally the property of her next of kin. They, he said, thought the couple were married. . . .
Truth
Sydney, NSW
Sunday 3 October 1926, p.23
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Other Deaths:
ACKLAND, Catherine Sarah (Ireland), Scone Catholic Cemetery
ADAMS, Arthur Edgar, South Head Cemetery
ANDERTON, Azubah (Davison), Helensburgh Cemetery
BRUSH, Alfred Charles "Stumpy", Moree Cemetery
DOYLE, Janet, Quirindi General Cemetery
DUNBAR, John, Scone Anglican Cemetery
FRIPP, Ada Methven, Murrurundi General Cemetery
GARLAND, Elizabeth, Haydonton Cemetery
GILES, John, Penrith General Cemetery
GILES, Sarah A (Price), Penrith General Cemetery
JEFFERSON, Albert, Sandgate Cemetery
JURD, Arthur George Oswald, Moree Cemetery
MALLETT, Sydney Sustains, Rookwood Cemetery
MALONE, Kathleen, Rookwood Cemetery
McDONALD, Emily, Carlingford Anglican Cemetery
McGRATH, Owen Vincent, Waverley Cemetery
McKEOWN, Frank, Tamworth Cemetery
McMILLAN, Walter Kenneth, Waverley Cemetery
MOCKRIDGE, John Reuben, Rookwood Necropolis and Taita Cemetery
NOLLER, Stanley Augustus, Mays Hill Cemetery
RICH, Howard J., Sandgate Cemetery
VAGIANIS, Peter, Murrurundi General Cemetery
SAMPSON, Olive Clarice, Gunnedah General Cemetery
WALKER, John Errol, Sandgate Cemetery
WALKER, Helen "Nellie" (Pollock), Sandgate Cemetery
WILSON, William H., Haydonton Cemetery
WILSON, Flora Dundas (Campbell), Haydonton Cemetery
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Twenty-seven people lost their lives and 42 injured as a result of a midnight train collision in the Upper Hunter Valley on Sept. 13, 1926 near Murrurundi, New South Wales. Breaking away from a goods train at Murulla, four cars laden with wool dashed backwards down a gradient and crashed into the oncoming north-west mail train from Moree to Sydney. Many of the passengers were children returning to school from holiday. Sometimes referred to as the Blandford railway accident, as the crash occurred before the community of Brandford,in an area bordered by both Brandford and Murulla districts.
Common law wife of Frank Garland for 13 years.
PERSONAL PARTICULARS
. . . The last body identified was that of Mrs. Elizabeth Garland, who had been employed at Coomoe Coomoe station, Quirindi, until Monday, and who was on her any to join her husband in Sydney. Her husband, who had been working at Berida station, Curban, has not yet been located, and in, tho absence of a communication from him, the interment will take place to-day at Murrarmadi. J. R. Mockridge, whose identity wae also established last night, is a commercial traveller, and last lived in Queensland. His relatives live in New Zealand. The burial will take place in Sydney to-day. Only three bodies, including that of Mrs. Garland, now remain at Murrurundi. The funerals of Miss Fripp and Peter Vagianis will take place there to-day.
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW)
Thursday 16 September 1926
WOMAN HE LOVED
Unnecessary Fear of the Law
A LONG KEPT SECRET
THE bitterness of the tragedy of the Murulla railway smash was intensified for Frank Garland, who lost the woman he loved in the accident. He knew her by her auburn hair, by a scar on the left thumbnail, and by a mole; the grinding steel and iron had otherwise crushed her poor body beyond recognition. When called to identify her as his wife Elizabeth Garland, he did so. He signed a statement for the police, stating who he was, a butcher employed on Berilda station near Gllgandra, and how long he had been married. Sad and alone he returned to Gilgandra. Then misgiving seized him. . . . Her sister is Mrs. Walter Hatton, 6 Avenue Park street, Maryhill, Glasgow. "I can only plead my love for her," wrote Garland, "as she was a good woman, reepected wherever she went, and my agony of mind. I am ready and willing to accept my punishment. I would have come
and surrendered myself only I had not the money." Garland also forwarded a cheque for £44/14/, which had been paid for the woman's wages on the station, pointing out that the money was legally the property of her next of kin. They, he said, thought the couple were married. . . .
Truth
Sydney, NSW
Sunday 3 October 1926, p.23
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Other Deaths:
ACKLAND, Catherine Sarah (Ireland), Scone Catholic Cemetery
ADAMS, Arthur Edgar, South Head Cemetery
ANDERTON, Azubah (Davison), Helensburgh Cemetery
BRUSH, Alfred Charles "Stumpy", Moree Cemetery
DOYLE, Janet, Quirindi General Cemetery
DUNBAR, John, Scone Anglican Cemetery
FRIPP, Ada Methven, Murrurundi General Cemetery
GARLAND, Elizabeth, Haydonton Cemetery
GILES, John, Penrith General Cemetery
GILES, Sarah A (Price), Penrith General Cemetery
JEFFERSON, Albert, Sandgate Cemetery
JURD, Arthur George Oswald, Moree Cemetery
MALLETT, Sydney Sustains, Rookwood Cemetery
MALONE, Kathleen, Rookwood Cemetery
McDONALD, Emily, Carlingford Anglican Cemetery
McGRATH, Owen Vincent, Waverley Cemetery
McKEOWN, Frank, Tamworth Cemetery
McMILLAN, Walter Kenneth, Waverley Cemetery
MOCKRIDGE, John Reuben, Rookwood Necropolis and Taita Cemetery
NOLLER, Stanley Augustus, Mays Hill Cemetery
RICH, Howard J., Sandgate Cemetery
VAGIANIS, Peter, Murrurundi General Cemetery
SAMPSON, Olive Clarice, Gunnedah General Cemetery
WALKER, John Errol, Sandgate Cemetery
WALKER, Helen "Nellie" (Pollock), Sandgate Cemetery
WILSON, William H., Haydonton Cemetery
WILSON, Flora Dundas (Campbell), Haydonton Cemetery
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THE MURULLA RAILWAY DISASTER
Twenty-seven people lost their lives and 42 injured as a result of a midnight train collision in the Upper Hunter Valley on Sept. 13, 1926 near Murrurundi, New South Wales. Breaking away from a goods train at Murulla, four cars laden with wool dashed backwards down a gradient and crashed into the oncoming north-west mail train from Moree to Sydney. Many of the passengers were children returning to school from holiday. Sometimes referred to as the Blandford railway accident, as the crash occurred before the community of Brandford,in an area bordered by both Brandford and Murulla districts.
Common law wife of Frank Garland for 13 years.
PERSONAL PARTICULARS
. . . The last body identified was that of Mrs. Elizabeth Garland, who had been employed at Coomoe Coomoe station, Quirindi, until Monday, and who was on her any to join her husband in Sydney. Her husband, who had been working at Berida station, Curban, has not yet been located, and in, tho absence of a communication from him, the interment will take place to-day at Murrarmadi. J. R. Mockridge, whose identity wae also established last night, is a commercial traveller, and last lived in Queensland. His relatives live in New Zealand. The burial will take place in Sydney to-day. Only three bodies, including that of Mrs. Garland, now remain at Murrurundi. The funerals of Miss Fripp and Peter Vagianis will take place there to-day.
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW)
Thursday 16 September 1926
WOMAN HE LOVED
Unnecessary Fear of the Law
A LONG KEPT SECRET
THE bitterness of the tragedy of the Murulla railway smash was intensified for Frank Garland, who lost the woman he loved in the accident. He knew her by her auburn hair, by a scar on the left thumbnail, and by a mole; the grinding steel and iron had otherwise crushed her poor body beyond recognition. When called to identify her as his wife Elizabeth Garland, he did so. He signed a statement for the police, stating who he was, a butcher employed on Berilda station near Gllgandra, and how long he had been married. Sad and alone he returned to Gilgandra. Then misgiving seized him. . . . Her sister is Mrs. Walter Hatton, 6 Avenue Park street, Maryhill, Glasgow. "I can only plead my love for her," wrote Garland, "as she was a good woman, reepected wherever she went, and my agony of mind. I am ready and willing to accept my punishment. I would have come
and surrendered myself only I had not the money." Garland also forwarded a cheque for £44/14/, which had been paid for the woman's wages on the station, pointing out that the money was legally the property of her next of kin. They, he said, thought the couple were married. . . .
Truth
Sydney, NSW
Sunday 3 October 1926, p.23
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Other Deaths:
ACKLAND, Catherine Sarah (Ireland), Scone Catholic Cemetery
ADAMS, Arthur Edgar, South Head Cemetery
ANDERTON, Azubah (Davison), Helensburgh Cemetery
BRUSH, Alfred Charles "Stumpy", Moree Cemetery
DOYLE, Janet, Quirindi General Cemetery
DUNBAR, John, Scone Anglican Cemetery
FRIPP, Ada Methven, Murrurundi General Cemetery
GARLAND, Elizabeth, Haydonton Cemetery
GILES, John, Penrith General Cemetery
GILES, Sarah A (Price), Penrith General Cemetery
JEFFERSON, Albert, Sandgate Cemetery
JURD, Arthur George Oswald, Moree Cemetery
MALLETT, Sydney Sustains, Rookwood Cemetery
MALONE, Kathleen, Rookwood Cemetery
McDONALD, Emily, Carlingford Anglican Cemetery
McGRATH, Owen Vincent, Waverley Cemetery
McKEOWN, Frank, Tamworth Cemetery
McMILLAN, Walter Kenneth, Waverley Cemetery
MOCKRIDGE, John Reuben, Rookwood Necropolis and Taita Cemetery
NOLLER, Stanley Augustus, Mays Hill Cemetery
RICH, Howard J., Sandgate Cemetery
VAGIANIS, Peter, Murrurundi General Cemetery
SAMPSON, Olive Clarice, Gunnedah General Cemetery
WALKER, John Errol, Sandgate Cemetery
WALKER, Helen "Nellie" (Pollock), Sandgate Cemetery
WILSON, William H., Haydonton Cemetery
WILSON, Flora Dundas (Campbell), Haydonton Cemetery
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Twenty-seven people lost their lives and 42 injured as a result of a midnight train collision in the Upper Hunter Valley on Sept. 13, 1926 near Murrurundi, New South Wales. Breaking away from a goods train at Murulla, four cars laden with wool dashed backwards down a gradient and crashed into the oncoming north-west mail train from Moree to Sydney. Many of the passengers were children returning to school from holiday. Sometimes referred to as the Blandford railway accident, as the crash occurred before the community of Brandford,in an area bordered by both Brandford and Murulla districts.
Common law wife of Frank Garland for 13 years.
PERSONAL PARTICULARS
. . . The last body identified was that of Mrs. Elizabeth Garland, who had been employed at Coomoe Coomoe station, Quirindi, until Monday, and who was on her any to join her husband in Sydney. Her husband, who had been working at Berida station, Curban, has not yet been located, and in, tho absence of a communication from him, the interment will take place to-day at Murrarmadi. J. R. Mockridge, whose identity wae also established last night, is a commercial traveller, and last lived in Queensland. His relatives live in New Zealand. The burial will take place in Sydney to-day. Only three bodies, including that of Mrs. Garland, now remain at Murrurundi. The funerals of Miss Fripp and Peter Vagianis will take place there to-day.
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW)
Thursday 16 September 1926
WOMAN HE LOVED
Unnecessary Fear of the Law
A LONG KEPT SECRET
THE bitterness of the tragedy of the Murulla railway smash was intensified for Frank Garland, who lost the woman he loved in the accident. He knew her by her auburn hair, by a scar on the left thumbnail, and by a mole; the grinding steel and iron had otherwise crushed her poor body beyond recognition. When called to identify her as his wife Elizabeth Garland, he did so. He signed a statement for the police, stating who he was, a butcher employed on Berilda station near Gllgandra, and how long he had been married. Sad and alone he returned to Gilgandra. Then misgiving seized him. . . . Her sister is Mrs. Walter Hatton, 6 Avenue Park street, Maryhill, Glasgow. "I can only plead my love for her," wrote Garland, "as she was a good woman, reepected wherever she went, and my agony of mind. I am ready and willing to accept my punishment. I would have come
and surrendered myself only I had not the money." Garland also forwarded a cheque for £44/14/, which had been paid for the woman's wages on the station, pointing out that the money was legally the property of her next of kin. They, he said, thought the couple were married. . . .
Truth
Sydney, NSW
Sunday 3 October 1926, p.23
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Other Deaths:
ACKLAND, Catherine Sarah (Ireland), Scone Catholic Cemetery
ADAMS, Arthur Edgar, South Head Cemetery
ANDERTON, Azubah (Davison), Helensburgh Cemetery
BRUSH, Alfred Charles "Stumpy", Moree Cemetery
DOYLE, Janet, Quirindi General Cemetery
DUNBAR, John, Scone Anglican Cemetery
FRIPP, Ada Methven, Murrurundi General Cemetery
GARLAND, Elizabeth, Haydonton Cemetery
GILES, John, Penrith General Cemetery
GILES, Sarah A (Price), Penrith General Cemetery
JEFFERSON, Albert, Sandgate Cemetery
JURD, Arthur George Oswald, Moree Cemetery
MALLETT, Sydney Sustains, Rookwood Cemetery
MALONE, Kathleen, Rookwood Cemetery
McDONALD, Emily, Carlingford Anglican Cemetery
McGRATH, Owen Vincent, Waverley Cemetery
McKEOWN, Frank, Tamworth Cemetery
McMILLAN, Walter Kenneth, Waverley Cemetery
MOCKRIDGE, John Reuben, Rookwood Necropolis and Taita Cemetery
NOLLER, Stanley Augustus, Mays Hill Cemetery
RICH, Howard J., Sandgate Cemetery
VAGIANIS, Peter, Murrurundi General Cemetery
SAMPSON, Olive Clarice, Gunnedah General Cemetery
WALKER, John Errol, Sandgate Cemetery
WALKER, Helen "Nellie" (Pollock), Sandgate Cemetery
WILSON, William H., Haydonton Cemetery
WILSON, Flora Dundas (Campbell), Haydonton Cemetery
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