[?]Atal Boat Accident at Newcastle
THE weather was particularly hot and oppressive on Saturday; notwithstanding the light N.E. wind a thick haze hung all round, making it very close and sultry…
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Accidents, 1868
22 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 2
Fuller Particulars of the Railway Accident
ONE the those distressing and terrible casualties occurring from time to time on railways—which seem, in some inexplicable manner, suddenly to defeat every wise precaution…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Accident on the Great Southern Railway
IN our last issue we gave a brief account of a terrible accident which occurred on Monday morning on the Great Southern Railway, close-to the Newtown station, by which one passenger was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hurricane at the Islands.—master and Mate of the Clyde Drowned
THE schooners Clyde and Neva arrived in our harbour on January 4th from the Islands, and report a hurricane as having occurred off Rorotonga on the 8th December, in which Captain Irvine, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fearful Calamity. Drowning of the Bishop of Grafton and Armidale. His Son and Servant
WE are favoured by a slip from the S M. Herald, dated Monday, noon, containing the following distressing intelligence from its correspondent at Grafton:-- Grafton, Monday, 9 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Frightful Railway Accident in America
The American papers give full details of a frightful accident which recently occurred on the Lake Shore Railroad, near Buffalo. The Rochester Express says:—“The train was some…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Terrible Accident Near Naples
THE accident which has taken place at Naples does not appear to be in any way connected with the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. It occurred about eight o'clock in the evening of the 28th…
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THE particulars of this dreadful occurrence, so far as we could gather from the statement of Mr. Adams, postmaster at Frying-pan, appear to be follows:— The mail from Sydney generally arrives at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Frightful Accident to the Bathurst Mail. with Loss of Life
EARLY on Friday morning, news came to Bathurst that the Sydney mail had met with a frightful accident, and that several persons, including the driver (Hamilton), were killed; and all the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident on the Road
On Thursday afternoon, as the vice-regal party were proceeding on the road between Jugiong and Gundagai, and when about ten miles beyond the former place, and near the Money Money Ranges…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Extraordinary and Fatal Trapeze Accident
A young man named Robert Townley has lost his life at Lancaster under distressing circumstances. Deceased, who was seventeen years of age, was a clerk in the employ…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shocking Railway Accident.-- Heroic Conduct of a Girl
A MOST shocking occurrence happened at the Leamside Station of the North-Eastern Railway, on Sunday, May 31. About noon an engine and tender entered the station from York, and at that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Accident Near Morowollen
A [?]RIGHTFUL accident, through which a man named George Sinclair, or George Duncan. was horribly mutilated, and another man, named Thomas Spence, had his leg very badly injured, occurred on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Accident at the Sydney Terminus
WE regret to have to state that yesterday morning a serious collision occurred on the railway, between the Sydney terminus and the Redfern tunnel, which caused considerable damage, and injured several…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident to the West India Mail
The Atrato, with the Panama mail of 1st August, put back on the 13th totally disabled; the Tasmanian was dispatched on the 14th ; the Ruahine is detained at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident to the Mail Steamer Atrato
The royal mail steamship Atrato became disabled at sea, at 5.30 p.m., on August 5. When about two hundred miles W.S.W. of the Lizard her mainshaft, port-eccentric, and cross-head of starboard…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Boat Accidents
A melancholy boat accident occurred on the Clyde, near Millport, on Tuesday evening, July 28, It appears that in the afternoon Colonel Thomas Morgan and Mr. Alexander Tweenie hired a small…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Appalling Accident to a Mail Train
It may be remembered that on August 25th, 1861, a frightful collision took place in the Clayton tunnel, by which twenty-three persons lost their lives, and one hundred and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The English Mail. Appalling Accident to the Irish Mail Train
IT may be remembered that on August 25, 1861, a frightful collision took place in the Clayton tunnel, by which twenty-three persons lost their lives, and 176 were seriously injured. Since…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dreadful Fatal Accident
On Sunday afternoon last Mr. William Hawes, publican, of Little River met with his death in a most sudden and unlooked for manner. He was driving home from…
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