Fatal Accident
ON Sunday last Mr. George Devoy and, we understand, a party of five or six other young men, started for Nymboida with the intention of being present at the races announced to take place there…
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Accidents, 1887
16 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers
The Late Collision
SYDNEY, TUESDAY.—To-day Mr. G. Knowles, the second officer of the steamer Helen Nicoll, was called upon by the Marine Board to show cause why his certificate should not be cancelled or…
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AN inquest was held at the Court-house hotel on Tuesday last, before Mr. C. Dickey, coroner, and a jury of twelve, touching the death of a half-caste named Dick, who met his death by drowning that…
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AT the inquiry at Woodenbung, Upper Clarence, touching the deaths of Andrew, Elizabeth, Sarah, Robert, and Andrew Evans, JasHarper stated: On the 21st January I was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Another Steamboat Collision
SYDNEY, FRIDAY.—A collision took place in the harbour last night, at 11 o'clock, between passenger steamers plying between North Shore and Manly Beach. The former boat,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Serious Railway Accident at Melbourne
SYDNEY, THURSDAY.—A collision occurred on the Brighton railway, near Melbourne, by an express train running into an ordinary engine. The driver, fireman, and three…
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THE running of an express train, full of passengers, and almost at full speed, into a standing train, also laden with passengers, is an accident or blunder of the most dreadful character; and heavy as is the…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—The verdict in the railway inquest is universally accepted as the proper one. The Age referring to the disorganisation in the department, says that an…
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BOTH our Maclean and Tyndale correspondents have forwarded det[?] of a melancholy and fatal accident that betel George Powell, son of Mr. G. R. Powell, of Tyndale. It appears that the young…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Railway Accident. [By Telegram From Our Correspondent.] Six Lives Lost. About Seventy Persons Injured
SYDNEY, WEDNESDAY.—A terrible railway accident occurred yesterday at Peate's Ferry, on the Hawkesbury line. An excursion train, with 300 passengers, left Redfern…
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THE Vienna correspondent of the Daily News telegraphs:—"A catastrophe happened on the 19th inst., at a ferry near Kaloosa, in Hangary, not far from Pesth. A procession of 300 pilgrims entered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Accident in America. 163 persons killed, and 100 wounded
LONDON, SATURDAY.—A railway disaster has occurred in America, owing to the burning of a bridge over the river Illinois. The drivers of two engines, drawing a train containing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Supposed Deaths by Drowning
SINCE Saturday last two individuals have been missing from Chatsworth, and from thn circumstances surrounding their disappearance it is surmised that they have come to their end by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Superstitions Oonneoted with Drowning
SOME years ago a man fell overboard from a Russian ship in Leith docks. The crew, says Lieut. Bassett, tried to rescue him at first, but when they found that he would surely…
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A REUTER'S telegram from New York says:—A telegram from the scence of the terrible accident on the Toledo, Peoria, and Western Ballway Bays that the disaster surpasses in its apalling extent any…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Peate's Ferry Railway Accident
IT has recently been decided by the Government, on the recommendation of the Commissioner for Railways, to offer compensation to the widow of the late driver Wilson, who was killed in the Peate's…
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