Railway Fatality
A TERRIBLE accident occurred near Guyra, Armidale, on Saturday night. While the mail train was proceeding up north it ran over a fettler named Michael Purcell, who…
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Accidents, 1887
343 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 7 of 18
Accidental Death
MR. ROSEVEAR SMITH, the well-known secretary and librarian of the Goulburn Mechanics' Institute, who sustained a fracture of the backbone by falling down…
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The evidence taken to-day at the inquest on the persons killed in the Windsor railway accident was of an important and sensational character. The witnesses called were the driver,…
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WOLLONGONG, Friday.âThe Campbelltown coach this morning was some hours late, owing to an accident which occurred while coming down the Bulli Mountain. The leading horse broke…
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AT the resumed inquest on the victims of the Windsor railway accident on Monday Phillips, the driver of the 5.25 ordinary down train, was recalled for the purpose of ascertaining whether…
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JUST as we were going to pross we learned that a daughter of Mr. Isaac Churchill, of Gullen, whilst on her way home from school yesterday slipped and fell to the…
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A MAN named John Muir, employed at the Excelsior Flour Mills, Clinton-street, had the misfortune yesterday to got his left thumb entangled in the machinery. He was attended…
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THE jury took nearly six hours to deliberate upon their verdict. The foreman announced that the jury had arrived at a unanimous verdict. They found, in the first place, that Mr. E. S…
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A LABORING man named Mc Hugh met with a severe accident on Sunday night through accidentally falling into an old quarry. He is in the employ of Mr. Walker, Kingsdale, and was…
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THE inquest on the pers[?] Kill[?] in the Windear railway accident has ended [?] ver[?]lict which must having about a few changes and some considerable reforms in the Railway Department (says the…
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A DWELLING situated on the river bank at Grafton, occupied by a man named O'Malley, was burnt on Wedne day night between 9 and 10 o'clock. Unfortunately…
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ON Monday night last about ten o'clock, Mrs. Shipp sen. of Gullen, whose age, we understand, approaches sixty years, met with an unfortunate accident. When…
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As Dr. Thane was proceeding to Mr. R. A. Barber's at Humewood, on Friday night, he met with a serious accident. The horse he was riding was cantering at a fast pace and…
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A SHOCKING accident occurred at the Bathurst railway station on Friday night, the ultimate result of which is expected to be the death of a railway employee named…
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A TERRIBLE railway accident occurred on the Homebush-Waratah line on Tuesday afternoon, resulting in a lamentable destruction of life and properly. It appears that an excursion train…
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Upwards of 300 Hungarian pilgrims have been drowned in the Danube by the capsizing of a raft during a squall…
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A SPECIAL train from Sydney arrived here this morning at about 6 o'clock with Mr. Downe, assistant locomotive engineer, in charge of about 40 men, who at once began removing the debris…
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A PASSENGER by the train leaving Sydney for Bathurst at a quarter to 2 o'clock last Saturday informs us that when approaching the Blacktown station it was stopped. The cause was soon…
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THE Mayor of Inverell (Mr. William Knapton) was killed on Tuesday night. His body was found on Tuesday morning on the road near the Church of England old parsonage. He was on…
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A CHILD named Rawcliff, aged five years, son of a railway employee, was admited to the hospital this morning. An elder brother it appears got hold of an axe which had been…
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