Fatal Railway Accident
A MAN whose name is at present unknown was knocked down and killed at the Stanmore railway station by the train which left Sydney at 5.40 a.m. on Thursday. The body is now lying in the South…
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Accidents, 1885
398 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 4 of 20
Railway Accident in Victoria
A railway accident occurred on Thursday morning at Wallan Wallan, Victoria. While the 6.15 passenger train from Melbourne to Wadonga was waiting at the platform, the…
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Sydney, March 2nd.—William King, a waterman plying between Balmain and Glebe Point, was found floating in the waters of Johnson's Bay this morning. Deceased was…
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A fatal boating accident at Gosford Broadwater occurred on Sunday evening. Mr. J. B. Anderson, Civil engineer to Mr. George Blunt, contractor for the third section of the Homebush to Waratah…
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London, Feb. 28.—A fatal accident took place yesterday during artillery practice which was being carried on at Shoeburyness. A shell prematurely exploded, killing an officer…
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Sydney, Wednesday evening.—An inquiry into the cause of death of the two women on board the Nemisis at the time of the collision with the Iberia will be opened…
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On Thursday a contractor named John Charles Chapman residing at Marulan, loaded a railway truck with freestone in one of the sidings at the railway station there. When the loading was…
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Sydney, March 6.—A terrible tram accident occurred this morning in Elizabeth street near King street. A little boy named John Osborne attempted to run across the line in…
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AFTER an interval of four months, another terrible tram accident, which it is believed will result fatally, happened on Friday morning. It appears that just before 10 o'clock a Glebe Point tram,…
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A terribly painful accident happened to a railway man named Charles Viner, at the yards here yesterday evening about half-past 5 o'clock. Viner was engaged in coupling a truck and whilst so…
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AFTER an interval of four months, another terrible tram accident, which it is believed will result fatally, happened last Friday morning. It appears that just before ten o'clock a…
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LAST evening, shortly after 5 o'clock, a man named Charles Viner was the victim of an awful accident at the railway station, whereby he lost his life. He was engaged in coupling two trucks…
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A case of drowning occurred at Mummell on Tuesday, when a child, the son of Mr. Arthur Charles Amor Spackmann, met his death in a very simple way. Mrs. Spackmann had proceeded to…
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Sydney, March 11.—The body of Steel, a miner, who was drowned while bathing at Newcastle, was discovered this morning about 57 yards from the place where he was swimming…
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A MALE child, aged about two years, belonging to Mr. C. Spackman, was drowned on Tuesday. The little one had accompanied his mother to the milking yard, and whilst she returned to the house remained…
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AN inquest was hold at the Hospital on Tuesday afternoon by Mr. Betts, coroner, touching the death of Charles Visor, shunter in the Goulburn railway yard, which occurred on the previous evening, under…
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In our Tuesday's issue we reported a fatal accident which, occurred at the railway yards the previous evening, when a shunter named Charles Viner was run over by a truck and from the injuries he…
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A shocking fatal accident occurred on the Dunkeld-road on Monday. Mrs. Powell, wife of a farmer, was coming into town with a horse and cart, and on approaching a culvert she dismounted…
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A man named Thomas Cardwell was brought to the hospital last evening suffering from a compound comminuted fracture of the right arm, caused by a fall from a waggon in which he was proceeding…
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A fatal accident occurred on Saturday morning to Mr. Government Inspector Brodie, in charge of the railway station buildings at Young. He had descended into a tank 20 feet deep and partially…
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