Remarkable Dock Accident
A singular and very serious accident occurred on July 27 at the East India Docks. The East and West India Docks adjoin closely the terminus of the Blackwall Railway…
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Disaster on Lake Quinsigamond. Seven Lives Lost, and Many Persons Narrowly Escaping Drowning
Worcester, Mass., July 4.—At Lake Quinsigamond this afternoon the steamer Issac Davis, loaded with passengers, careened, her hurricane deck broke off, and scores of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fatal Accident at George's River. (Evening News of Monday.)
A melancholy boat accident, which resulted in the death of Mr. J. S. Gordon, wine merchant, of Pitt-street, occurred yesterday at George's River. It appears, from the…
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A shocking accident happened on the Thames during the afternoon of Bank Holiday. It appears that a family of the name of Stewart, residing in the Donnington Road,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Accident at Port Macquarie. (From the correspondent of the Manning River Times.)
An accident, attended with fatal results, and of a most painful nature, happened to a little boy between seven and eight years old on Monday evening, Sept. 29. His name is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Accident and Singular Death. (Telegram in Melbourne Argus.) Maryborough
A t[?]rible accident happened to William Tyler, manager for Messrs. Hingham and Co., carriers, at the railway station, this morning. A truck was being shunted, when…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Dreadful Accident in New Zealand. Three Men Killed. (From the Echo.)
A fatal accident occurred at Napier, New Zealand, on September 20, to three men, named Quinn, Clarke, and Farnes, working at the reclamation works. There were a lot…
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ON the evening of 22nd ult., a man known as William Elliott, in the employ of Mr. Edwin Esther, about four miles from this township, was ferrying across a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Collision in Sydney Harbour. (From the Evening News of Saturday.)
Last evening, shortly before eight o'clock, persons in the neighbourhood of Circular Quay were alarmed to hear a resounding crash in the harbour, and the water police…
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Intelligence was received in West Maitland last evening to the effect that a terrible railway accident had occurred that afternoon on the Great Northern Line, near Belford, which ia situated about ten miles…
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THE breaking of the coupling of some carriages forming portion of the returned excursion train on Monday night [?]eems to have been a more serious…
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WITH reference to the serious accident which occurred to the picnic train on Monday last on the Great Northern Line, we learn that an official…
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During the gale last nigh two trucks laden with farm produce standing in the siding at Picton were set in motion by the wind and got on the main line…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Accident. (From the Echo.)
An accident of a rather unusual nature occurred on the railway, near Picton, on Thursday night. It appeared that a tremendous gale was blowing, accompanied with…
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Our harbour is becoming the scene of as many accidents as happen in some of the American rivers, and most of them the result of down-right carelessness,…
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A fearful accident happened to Mr. Alexander McGregor at Glendonbrook, on Saturday. He and his partner Mr. George Cook are engaged in building a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Serious Accident at the Bulga. (Singleton Argus of yesterday.)
A fearful accident happened to Mr. Alexander McGregor at Glendonbrook, on Saturday. He and his partner, Mr. George Cook, are engaged building a bridge over the Allyn…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Boat Accident in Sydney Harbour. (From yesterday's Herald.)
A melancholy death by drowning took place on Saturday afternoon through the upsetting of a boat, under the following circumstances: —Messrs. Octavius Brown, Wilshire, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Three Children Drowned at Cooktown
The following particulars of the lamentable loss of three little girls at Finch's Bay are given in the Cooktown Herald:—The sad event was related by Joseph Shambrook, a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Trapeze Accident at Ultimo. (From the Echo.)
An extraordinary and totally unlooked for occurrence took place on Thursday night during the performance of two members of the Blondin troupe at Ultimo. It appears…
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