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Northern Star
Fri 28 March 1919

THE BRISBANE RIOTS

To the law-abiding throughout the Commonwealth the proceedings which have taken place in Brisbane during the past few days will come as a shock. It seems incredible to think that the law of the land should be openly flouted and blood spilled through the inactivity of the Federal and the indifference of the State Governments. Neither would these things have happened – not even in Queensland, which has ever been in the van of the other States with its Trades Hall revolutionary propaganda – were it not for the fact that a Labor Government, under the domination of the Trades Hall caucus, is in power there. This supergoverning force of irresponsibles for some time has been getting more and more aggressive, openly embracing as members of the “brotherhood of man” a number of red-rag Russian agitators and publicly vaunting

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The Courier Mail
Sat 6 Oct 1934

TRAINS COLLIDE AT ROMA STREET
Engine Derailed
Driver and Friemen Suspended

With a crash that could be heard for hundreds of yards, a goods train and an empty passenger train came into collision at the Southern end of the Roma Street goods yards early yesterday morning. The engine of the passenger train was badly derailed, its front portion being extensively damaged, and several waggons on the goods train received slight damage. No one was injured.

The collision occurred about 7.30am, the trains involved being the 41 down, a goods train from Toowoomba, and the 22 up, a passenger train running between Petrie and Central Station.

The Petrie train, after conveying its passengers to Central, was passing through Roma Street, en route to the Mayne Junction sheds, just as a goods train swung into the Roma Street yards, and was proceeding along another loop

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