Dreadful Railway Accidents. London, December 27
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 2 January 1875 · page 2
A railway accident, which is almost unparalleled, occurred at Shipton, on Thursday afternoon. The train consisted of two engines and sixteen carriages. It was proceeding at the rate of forty miles an hour,…
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The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 6 January 1875 · page 3
It is to be regretted that a fatal accident occurred in the harbour during the time the regatta was being held. A boat belonging to the ship Endyinian whilst…
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The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 6 January 1875 · page 4
The result of the official inquiry instituted by direction of the Board of Trade, into the collision, between the Candahar and Kingsbridge, was as follows. "The…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1875 · page 6
The San Francisco Bulletin reports that at 4 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 11, Gruet Buislay, the accomplished aeronaut and gymnast and star of the Buislay troupe, ascended…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Extraordinary Railway Accident in Queensland. (From the Brisbane Courier, January 27.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 4 February 1875 · page 3
An accident, which probably cannot be duplicated in the annals of railway disaster, so far as the cause is concerned, occurred on Monday evening to the train running from Toowoomba to Warwick. As…
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The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 6 February 1875 · page 4
THE Hoborn reports a. serious accident on the main railway line by which five men were injured. The facts as gathered from Mr. Grant…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 20 February 1875 · page 7
A dreadful railway accident, in which thirtyone persons were killed and upwards of seventy wounded, occurred yesterday morning on the Great Western Railway line, a few hundred…
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The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 24 February 1875 · page 3
YESTERDAY a [?] accident occurred to an express train on the Great Western Railway at Shipton, near Oxford. The train to which the accident occurred is the express…
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The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 24 February 1875 · page 4
MR. BOOTH, coroner, hold an inquest at Madaley, near Newcastle-under-Tyne, on Wednesday afternoon, upon the body of Daniel Downing, Collier, who…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 27 February 1875 · page 2
In the Vice-Admiralty Court this morning the Judge Commissary, Sir James Martin, C.J., delivered judgment in the case of the ship Sierra Nevada in collision with the brig A. H. Peake. His Honor, after…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 6 March 1875 · page 4
We find in the Newcastle Pilot of Thursday some additional particular of the sad drowning of Mr. Arnold. Our own reporting movements have been so difficult, from the flood currents across the road…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 6 March 1875 · page 6
No doubt the mournful inteligence of the sad death by drowning of the Honorable William Munnings Arnold will have reached you before this letter comes to hand. The honorable gentleman, with…
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The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 13 March 1875 · page 4
The wind [?]…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 March 1875 · page 2
[Evening News.]—The steamer Helen Macgregor, an old trader between Sydney Newcastle and Grafton, struck on a reef on the Clarence Bar, at four o'clock this afternoon. She floated off after being on…
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The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 17 March 1875 · page 4
The steamer Helen Macgregor an old trader between Sydney Newcastle and Grafton struck on a reef on the Clarence Bar at 4 o'clock this…
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The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 17 March 1875 · page 4
We (Miner's Advocate) are sorry to have to report another fatal accident at this colliery the victim in this case being Alexander Hunter who was killed…
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The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1875 · page 2
By the kindness of Mr. John Browne J.P. we are placed in possession of the following particulars of a very serious and probably fatal coach accident which…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 25 March 1875 · page 3
The Singleton Argus of yesterday gives the following account of this occurrence:— By the kindness of Mr. John Browne, J.P., we are placed in possession of the following particulars of…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 March 1875 · page 2
A shocking accident (the Argus reports) resulting in the death of a man and a boy, and in serious injury to another man, occurred on the North Eastern Railway line near Violet Town, on the night of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mail Coach Accident at Quirindi. (From the Correspondent of the Murrurundi Times.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 March 1875 · page 2
On Saturday evening last, 20th instant, Mr. Robert Nowland's mail and passengers coach, conveying the mail from Willow Tree to Narrabri, met with a serious accident about half-a-mile from the post-office at…
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