Six Thousand Chinese Drowned. LONDON, July 17
News has been received that the Kwantung River in China has overflowed its banks and flooded a large tract of country. Six thousand Chinese were drowned, and ten thousand…
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Accidents, 1889
234 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 8 of 12
Serious Accident
A TAPPER named John Hancock sustained a serious accident at the Goulburn railway station yesterday afternoon. Hancock, it seems, was leaning on the buffers of a railway truck, when…
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ON Friday morning the northern mail train from Brisbane and Newcastle to Sydney met with an accident about a mile from Strathfield. When the train had nearly arrived at the…
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One of the most terrible railway accidents which has ever happened in the British Isles occurred on June 12, in the north of ireland. The scene of the disaster was…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—A fatal accident occurred at the corner of Spencer-street and Flinders-street to-day in connection with the viaduct which is being constructed between the…
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We (Braidwood Dispatch) deeply regret to have to record a very severe accident which happened to Sub-Inspector Hitch on Wednesday afternoon last in Araluen. He was riding along…
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Melbourne, Sunday.âA terrible accident occurred early on Saturday morning at the Palace Hotel, Bourke-street, by which two men lost their lives on a luggage lift. This lift is…
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A sad drowning fatality occurred on Tuesday afternoon at Cook's River, near the bridge on the Illawarra line, by which a young man named Henry August Willersdorf, aged 22…
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Dubbo, Thursday.—Three children, one boy nine years of age and two girls aged seven and five respectively, belonging to William Worthington, were drowned on…
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THE Argus of Monday gives the following full particulars of the lift accident on Saturday morning at the Palace Horal, by when two men lost their lives:—“The palace Hotel is fitted with two their…
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Mr. Moriarty, the Chairman of the Land Board, while driving from Goulburn to Braidwood on Monday met with an accident which he was very lucky to have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatal Dynamite Accident in Queensland
BRISBANE, Monday.—A fatal accident on the Cairns-Herberton railway line, now under construction, occurred on Saturday afternoon. A charge of dynamite missed fire, and while the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Collision Between Two Ironclads. LONDON, August 7
The Black Prince disabled by a collision with the Invincible has rejoined the fleet and will take part in the manœarves. The Beharing Sea Fisheries…
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ON Wednesday morning a fatal accident occurred on the Old South Head road, near the Tea Gardens, Waverley. A man, a fettler on the tram way line, was working cleaning out the…
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While Searle was soulling on the Thames yesterday, in his Clasper boat, he came into collision with a barge. The boat was matched Searle got safely ashore, but the boat sank…
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A FATAL railway accident occurred near Thornleigh shortly after noon on Saturday. The up train from Newcastle passing Thornleigh at 12.26 ran over a little girl named Violet…
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WEST MAITLAND, Sunday.—Mr. John M'Ivor, assistant teacher at Mr. Morton Syke's grammar-school, East Maitland, was accidentally drowned yesterday afternoon in a swamp at…
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A SAD and fatal accident happened on Saturday last at Coppabella, 12 miles from Binalong, to a young man named Silas Cross, aged 23 years, and son of Mr. George Cross, who…
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A TERRIBDE tramway fatality happened on Wednesday night in Elizabeth-street, opposite the Supreme Court buildings, the victim being a man whose name at present is unknown. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Accident in England. LONDON, August 20
A disastrous railway occident occurred yesterday on the York, Newcastle and Berwick railway, at Sunderland, a seaport and market town in the county of Durham…
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