After the battle the scene in Broken Hill was a highly emotional one - the men would not allow Abdulla's body to be taken away in an ambulance and it was finally removed in an old dray.  Later that day both the bodies of Abdulla and Gool Mohamed were  disposed of by the police in secret.  That night armed men stood guard at the cemetery and in the gaol grounds to prevent any search for the bodies.

The result of the attack and the battle was increased intolerance towards ethnic groups in the town.  At the time it was argued that the local German community must have been behind the plot.  The night after the battle the local German Club was set alight and firemen had to fight the crowd as well as the fire when a number of bystanders tried to cut the hoses. 

People also blamed the entire community of Afghan camel drivers living on the outskirts of town for the incident.  After the fire at the German Club had been extinguished the crowd began to march to the Afghan camel camp.  Their way was barred by the local militia and the Police who stood guard all night.

Gradually the town returned to normal.  The Silverton Tramway Company refunded in full the fares for the picnic train and the money was used to launch a public relief fund.  Later in the week the Militia found itself short of rifles and made a public appeal for all rifles to be returned by 4pm of the following Saturday.

The Official Report from the Barrier Miner

Below is the official report taken from the Barrier Miner newspaper the day after the shooting.  It shows the attitude of the press to the Turks and events of the previous day as well as the style of reporting at the time.

"Two coloured men, Afghans or Turks, armed with rifles, fired on a picnic train laden with men, women and children just outside the city route to Silverton. Killed and wounded several. The police when informed, went in pursuit of offenders, and took refuge on a rocky hill, and fired on the police and wounded Constable Mills. The two men were finally shot down one dead, the other wounded. Constable Mills, wounded, and wounded offender in the hospital.

KILLED

COWIE, Elma M - Freeberg Hotel, Railwaytown. MILLARD, A E - Cobalt Street, Railwaytown. SHAW, William - Foreman sanitary department.

GREIG, James - next Cable Hotel, shot in abdomen whilst chopping in back yard.

WOUNDED

KAVANAGH, Mary, STOKES, George, CAMPBELL, Thomas, SHAW, Lucy, CROCKER, Alma, CRABB, Rose, MILLS, Robert (Constable)

TURKS IDENTIFIED

The identity of the Turks who were shot has been established by the police. Mulla Abdulla, who was killed outright, was a butcher. Some days ago he was convicted and fined for slaughtering sheep on premises riot licensed for slaughtering. He had previously been before the court on a similar charge. He was an elderly man, by appearance about 60, and he was short and thick set. Gool Mahomed died on the way to the hospital. He is believed to have been an ice cream vendor.

Abdulla carried a Snider rifle and an apparently home-made bandolier. The latter has pockets for 48 cartridges, and 26 of the pockets were empty. As a number of cartridges were in the man's pocket it is concluded that the bandolier must have been full and that he had fired the 26 cartridges away. He also had in his possession a revolver and cartridges and a new knife and sheath. The other man's rifle was a Martini Henry.

Mulla Abdulla had been 16 years in Broken Hill, chiefly camel-driving. For the past few years he had been butcher for the camp at North Broken Hill, vested with priest rights in order to kill according to the Mohammedan religion. He was of a very reserved disposition, rarely speaking to anyone, and even the men in the camp are not sure where he was born. He was always childish and simple in his ways. He was unable to pay a fine when he was convicted for killing a sheep on unlicensed premises and has become very broody as a result. About this time Gool Mahomed came to the camp, and lived next to Abdulla. They became friends.

It is Inspector Miller's view that Gool Mahomed was the instigator of the affair. He believes that as Abdulla was unable to pay the fine in the recent court case Gool used this as a lever in persuading Abdulla that there was very little to live for as he was certain to be arrested or undergo imprisonment. He no doubt preyed upon Abdulla's mind until he was persuaded that it was better to die and that it would be dying gloriously and with the certainty of great happiness in the hereafter if he killed as many of the British as he could before he was himself slain. Mahomed then made his plans and Abdulla fell in with them."

Barrier Miner, 2nd January, 1915