Sunshine Station Railway Disaster

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Ballarat, Australia
Surname/tag: Australian_Disasters

THE SUNSHINE STATION RAILWAY DISASTER

On the night of Easter Monday, 20 April 1908, over 400 were injured and 44 people died as a result of a Melbourne-bound train from Bendigo colliding with the rear of a mail train from Ballarat, which was just leaving the station. Around 1,100 people were aboard the two trains. Almost all of the casualties were from the Ballarat train, as the Bendigo train was cushioned by its two locomotives.

For additional information see:

• Wikipedia: Sunshine Rail Disaster

Deaths

Picture	Surname	Given Names	Age	Burial	Other Family in Accident
	ACREMAN	Rose Beatrice (Williams)	35 yrs.	Footscray General Cemetery	16 yrs old daughter Rose Beatrice received a fractured thigh in the collision.
	ATKINSON	Thomas	48 yrs.	Williamstown Cemetery	No
	BLIGHT	John Algernon	22 yrs.	Ballarat Old Cemetery	No
	BROWN	John		Ballarat New Cemetery	yesorno
	BUNYARD	Stuart Ormonde	22 yrs.	Oakleigh Cemetery	No
	CLARK	Archer	48 yrs.	Fawkner Memorial Park	16 yr. old daughter Mary Alicia also killed.
	CLARK	Mary Alicia	16 yrs.	Fawkner Memorial Park	Father also killed.
	DALLING	Frances Elizabeth		Mount Cole Cemetery
	DANNOCK	James Oliver	49 yrs.	Boroondara General Cemetery	Daughter Maria Mary killed; daughter Urica critically injured.
	DANNOCK	Maria Mary	20 yrs.	Boroondara General Cemetery	Father James killed; sister Urica critically injured.
	DAVIS	Joseph		Melbourne General Cemetery
	DENIER	Ernest		Ballarat New Cemetery
	DENT	John Edward	24 yrs.	Boroondara General Cemetery	Brother Albert received extensive scalp wounds, a broken nose, and severe bruising.
	DORAN	Denis
	ELLINGSEN	Albert		Ballarat New Cemetery
	GATES	Joseph Leonard	20 yrs.	Footscray General Cemetery	Brother Leslie also died.
	GATES	Leslie Russell	18 yrs.	Footscray General Cemetery	Brother Joseph also died.
	GILES	Matilda Maud		Boroondara General Cemetery
	GREEN	Ethel May Dolly		Boroondara General Cemetery
	HAWKES	John Daniel		Boroondara General Cemetery
	HUGHES	Ada		Williamstown Cemetery
	HUGHES	Griffith		Williamstown Cemetery
	HUNTINGTON	Thomas Leslie		Footscray General Cemetery
	JONES	Elizabeth Amelia		Melbourne General Cemetery
	LAFFAN	Catherine Amy	23 yrs.	Melbourne General Cemetery	Sister Alice killed.
	LAFFAN	Bridget Alice	20 yrs.	Melbourne General Cemetery	Sister Katherine killed.
	McCALL	George Wilkie	24 yrs.	Boroondara General Cemetery	No
	McKAY	Alexander Barclay		Melbourne General Cemetery
	McKean	Thomas		Fawkner Cemetery
	NANKERVIS	William	51 yrs.	Melbourne General Cemetery	Son William Raymond received dislocated hip.
	O'CONNOR	Frederick George		St Kilda Cemetery
	PASCOE	James Victor	26 yrs.	Ballarat Old Cemetery	No
	PEATE	Henry Edwin		Boroondara General Cemetery
	RUSHBROOK	Esther Edith May		Boroondara General Cemetery
	SAWYER	Frederick George		Melbourne General Cemetery
	SKOGLUND	Oscar	27 yrs.	Boroondara General Cemetery	Wife Jenni (Grace) Skoglund injurred.
	THOMAS	William		Williamstown Cemetery
	THOMAS	Janet (Jones)	61 yrs.	Ballarat New Cemetery	No
	TUCKER	Annie		Coburg Pine Ridge Cemetery
	TUCKER	Margaret W. (Leckie)		Coburg Pine Ridge Cemetery
	WATSON	Rupert Chester Inglis	15 yrs.	Coburg Pine Ridge Cemetery
	WILLIAMS	Elizabeth		Melbourne General Cemetery
	WILLIAMSON	Charles Frederick		Coburg Pine Ridge Cemetery
	WRIGHT	Agnes		Brighton Cemetery