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24 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 2
The ironclad Northumberland came into collision with the armour-plated Hercules, also belonging to the Channel Squadron. The collision occurred off Madeira during a gale. The vessels were saved only…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Additional particulars, respecting the fatal boat accident at Colac, referred to in our telegraphic columns yesterday, appeared in the Geelong Advertiser of yesterday. The three school teachers—Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We regret exceedingly to have to state that this morning Mr. Chas. Fuller, station-master at Buninyong East, met his death through an accident on the line. From what we can learn, it seems that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer whcih ran into and sank the emigrant ship Northfleet has not yet been discovered, ana it is feared she too has foundered. (From the Evening News.)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An accident occurred yesterday afternoon to one of the two locomotive engines while at work, rendering it at once useless. It appears that the key connecting the piston with the rod inside the cylinder…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Newcastle Chronicle of Saturday publishes the survivor's narrative of the fatal boat accident reported in our last issue. John Limeburner, the man who was saved, was much younger than Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An accident of a very terrible nature, by which one man lost his life and three other persons were severely injured, occurred on the Sofala road, within a mile or so of the village of Peel, late on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The occurrence of a serious accident on one of the South Australian Railways through the breaking of the tire of an engine wheel has been reported. The Observer of the 28th ult. gives the following…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A correspondent, who was a passenger on board the R.M.S. Roman at the time of her striking Dossen Island, gave us the following account of what took place:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A very sad calamity occurred on Tuesday morning in connection with the pilot schooner Rip. The arrangements at present existing in the pilot service provide that each of the boats…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A railway accident, which caused the death of fourteen persons, has occurred at Wigan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquest was held on Wednesday last, on board the steamship Chatsworth, lying at Southgate before. Mr. Alfred Lardner, J.P., and a jury of twelve, touching the cause of the death of one James Sutton, who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A collision has occurred on the railway at Retford. Several passengers have been killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It has been ascertained that three persons were killed and forty injured by the collision at Retford…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Murrurundi correspondent, under date Sunday evening, sends us the following particulars of a very severe accident that has prostrated the Rev. Father O'Keefe, and placed him in considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chicago, August 17.—A terrible accident occurred last night on the Chicago and Acton railroad, caused by a collision of the night express going south and a coal train coming north…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is our mournful duty to record another very sudden death, and this time that of a member of our staff—Mr. Thomas M'Cracken—who for the past eleven months held the position of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A shocking accident on the Southern line of railway occurred in broad daylight yesterday, by which a man named James Palmer and one of a team of horses that be was driving were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway accidents have recently been both numerous and serious…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Friday (yesterday) morning an accident occurred in the claim of the Bathurst G. M. Co., Trunkey Creek, by which a young man named Michael Scalley lost his life. The manager of the mine (Mr…
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