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47 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 3
Oatlands was thrown into a state of intense excitement about half past eight o'clock on Friday morning, when it became known that a serious accident had occurred by the upsetting of Page's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A dreadful accident occurred at Waratah yesterday morning, resulting in the death of James Comerford and John Callaghan, and serious injury to several others. It appears a number of men named respectively…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It again becomes our painful duty to chronicle a fatal occurrence, adding another to the many cases of accidental death since the commencement of the present year. In the present instance the victim…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Tuesday morning last one of the most distressing catastrophes that has ever taken place in this district occurred at Waratah about half-past seven o'clock, at Mr. Whiteman's quarry, through a fall of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A terrible accident occurred early on the morning of the 29th November, on the Midland Railway, at Syston, a station about five miles north of Leicester. The mail train from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is my painful duty to have to record the addition of another to the list of sad and fatal accidents which have lately cast such a gloom over the community. The latest of these sad calamities has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An accident, which is very much more serious than any which it has been our duty to record in connection with our railways for many years past, occurred on the Northern line, at a point about two miles…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Mount Alexander Mail of Tuesday gives the following account of the collision which occurred on the railway on Monday:— Considerable excitement was occasioned last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soon after 10 p.m. on Friday, March 27, a distressing accident occurred on the North line of railway at the level crossing of the North Adelaide Station. Just as the engine and one carriage, which formed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We regret deeply to have to record a most serious accident which happened this morning, at about 7 o'clock, to the small steamer Wan Loong, which has been recently built to run between this and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is our painful duty to record a most sad event which occurred in Beyers and Holtermann's Gold Mining Company'a claim, early yesterday morning, and resulted in the instantaneous death of Francis…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About eight o'clock last night as Mr. L. Kavanagh the grocer, of Brickfield Hill, was on his way to Sydney from Cook's River, in company with a person named Cousins, he was unfortunately thrown from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday afternoon last, a sad accident occurred in West Maitland, by which a promising young man named Alexander Patterson, son of Mr. John Patterson, a very old inhabitant of Maitland, was killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A most deplorable accident, terminating fatally to one of the men concerned in it, occcrred on board the A. S. N. Company's s.s. City of Melbourne, lying alongside the Hobson's Bay Railway Pier, Sandridge,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Learmonth correspondent of the Ballarat Star relates the following:—"Tuesday night, 19th inst., was not barren of accidents and incidents. The following, if not having been conveyed to me through…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An inquest was held at the Railway Hotel, Blane-street, on Saturday morning last, before A. A. P. Tighe, Esq., District Coroner, on the body of the unfortunate man Edward Williamson, who lost his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A report was current in Maitland yesterday that a rather serious railway collision had occurred in Newcastle yesterday morning, between the first train from the country and a coal train. From inquiries we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We take from the Newcastle Pilot of Saturday the following account of the collision between the passenger train and a coal train on Friday morning last, some particulars of which we published in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At about four o'clock yesterday a report reached Port Chalmers that a boat had capsized above the Quarantine Islands, and that four men had been drowned, and three saved. It turned out to be too…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Monday last, Mr. W. H. Hargraves, son of Mr. Hargraves, the gold discoverer, and Mr. C. J. Burns, son of the member for the Hunter, both clerks in the Equity Court, accompanied by a lad named…
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