Tram Accidents
"Orion" writes: Tram accidents are alas only too frequent, and the difficulty is to decide as to who is at fault—the driver or the unfortunate passenger. On Saturday night the writer witnessed an…
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Accidents, 1901
102 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 6
Accident to Mr. J. McMahon
MR. J. McMAHON, of Maclean, met with an accident to one of his eyes a week ago, which proved serious. He was engaged in chopping wood, and on staking a short piece in the centre it…
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A STRANGE fatal accident happened to a little girl named Mary Trevaskis on Friday morning on the farm of Mr. James Stone, of Woodstock West, near Tarnagulla (Vic.), Where the child…
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Writing from Myrtle Creek to his father (Mr. W. Small, of Swan Creek), Mr. Eddie Small gives the following particulars of the accident which befell him on Friday last…
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A FATAL accident occurred at Woolgoolga last week. It appears a man named Henry Gilmore was engaged handspikeing a log for the local saw-mill when the lover slipped and…
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MISS ALICE TILL was the victim of a serious burning accident at Mr. B. Bridger's yesterday. A tin containing varnish had been laid on the stove to melt, and Miss Till raised it to move it…
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A DISASTROUS fire occurred on Monday morning at Daniel Slade's produce store and private residence, Parramatta Road, Leichhardt[?]. The flames spread…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train Accident. 14 Persons Killed. Thirty Injured. Sydney, Friday. 8 P.m
A railway accident ocourred at Temps to-night. Several passengers were killed and a number injured. Farther particulars later. LATER.—The train left the Redfern station at…
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A terrible railway accident occurred at Tempo to-night. 14 passengers were killed and 30 injured. DETAILS OF THE CATASTROPHE…
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THE administration of the Miners' Accident Relief Act continues to cause trouble, and present indications point to the probability that the miners…
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The cause of the accident is inexplicable. The line was in perfect working order, and Subjected as it is to a heavy daily traffic was constantly under supervision. As a matter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Accident The Engine Toppled over an Embankment. Seven Persons Killed and 25 Injured. Thrilling Experiences
Very sad was the railway accident that happened on Friday evening on the line to Hurstville. It is one of the most serious calamities of the kind that has happened in New South Wales. And nobody…
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ON Friday evening an appalling railway accident occurred between Sydenham and Tempe, on the Illawarra line. The train which left Redfern at 5.55 p.m., crowded with passengers…
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Last Friday afternoon a terrible railway disaster occurred on a lovel piece of track between the Sydenham and Tempe stations, on the Illawarra line, some few miles from…
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During the last fifteen years there have been several serious accidents on the New South Wales railway lines. On January 25 h, 1885, seven persons…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Notes From the City. Sydney, Wednesday. The Sydneham Railway Accident
So far all theories for the Sydenham railway accident are quita conjectural. The man who was in the train and escaped, the man near at hand on lerra firms, the man down in Sydney, and…
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Australia is pretty free from railway accidents, due to the scantiness of its population, and a consequent freedom from a bewildering busy system. All the same, it does have some, and occasion…
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THE mail steamer City of Rio Janeiro, from H[?]ngkong, foundered at the entrance of the Golden Gate, San Francisco (America). 150 lives were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Notes & News from Sydney. the Railway Accident
The sickening details of the railway fatality at Sydenham, which have brought gloom and bereavement into so many homes, have to a large extent…
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THE recent railway accident at Tempe was the first of its kind in this colony, though loss of lifo has occurred at times in England through engines jumping off the linos without apparent…
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