Shocking Accident near Rockhampton
A TELEGRAM from Rockhampton reports that a fearful accident occurred on Saturday on the Gladstone road, at a place 17 miles from the town. The wife of a selector named Mann was…
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Accidents, 1887
343 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 11 of 18
Appalling Railway Accident in America. New York, August 11
A terrible railway disaster occurred to day. Owing to the burning of the bridge over the River Illinois a train eastward bound for Niagara was huried into the river. The exact loss of life is not yet known,…
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WILCANNIA, Wednesday.— Alderman John Ross met with a shocking death from drowning in the river last night. He was returning home about midnight, the night being dark and windy,…
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MURWILLUMBAH. Wednesday.—A magisterial enquiry was held yesterday by Mr. Joshua Bray, P.M., at the Brunswick-road, respecting the death of John M'Cormack, who was drowned on…
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SIR,—What might have occasioned a very serious accident to the 4.30 a.m. mail train from Tarago to Bungendore occurred on the 11th instant, when a valuable milch cow, the property of one…
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AT the Albury police court on Tuesday, Christian Reus, a carter, was proceeded against by the Commissioner of Railways for allowing horses to stray on the railway line, and was fined…
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BATHURST, Wednesday.—A fatal accident occurred yesterday at Perth, eight miles from Bathurst. It appears that just before 6 o'clock, as the passenger train from Bathurst to Orange…
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Yesterday afternoon John Armstrong, employed at the Royal Hotel, was in charge of the hotel 'bus with a pair of horses at the railway-station waiting for the afternoon passenger train…
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A terrible railway accident accurred to-day. Owing to the burning of the bridge over the River Illinois a train eastward bound for Niagara was hurled into the…
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AN old man named Daniel Baldwin, a resident of Young for fully 20 years, and a carpenter by trade, committed suicide on Wednesday evening by drowning himself…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bathing Fatality at Scarborough. LONDON, Aug. 18
While bathing at Soarborough, the Rev. Arthur Newcome and Mr. Guy Broome ventured out too far, and the sea being very rough, the Rev. Arthur Newcome was drowned before…
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ON Sunday last a sad case of drowning occurred near the show ground North Yass. It appears that three half-caste children—one twelve years, one ten, and one six—were sent to…
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MR. BETTS (coroner) held an inquest at the Yass and Collector Inn yesterday on the body of Mr. Hamilton Gideon Huggart, who had died from injuries received through falling from his horse…
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MR. HAMILTON GIDEON HUGGART, farmer and grazier, residing at Thornford near Goulburn, met with a serious accident on Sunday last, which terminated fatally…
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AN accident which might have terminated much more seriously, happened to Mr. John Ford, driver for Mr. Mills of Peelwood, on Tuesday last. It appears that…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.— A serious collision occurred on Tuesday afternoon on the other side of Wilson's Promontory, which, but for the fine weather prevailing,…
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THE Attorney-General (Mr. B. R. Wise) forwarded on Tuesday last to the Works Department a communication embodying the results of the legal examination of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accidental Poisoning at Crookwell
A BOY named Thurlow at Crookwell on Thursday by some means got hold of a small bottle containing oil of tar, which had been used as a remedy for…
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MR. ALEXANDER P.M. (in the absence of the coroner) held a magisterial inquiry at the Bridge Hotel on Thursday afternoon last touching the death of a child named William Robert Watkins, son of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yachting Accident off the Coast of Devon. LONDON, Aug. 28
A fatal yachting accident has occurred off Ilfracombe, in Devonshire. A yacht capsized during a sadden squall, and 16 persons were drowned…
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