Mail Extracts. Fatal Railway Accident
Toledo, O., July 19.—An excursion train from Toledo to Indianapolis, leaving here at 9 p.m. yesterday, via the Wabash Railway, jumped the track near Knox's Siding, O., at…
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Fatal Accident at Mount Keira. (Illawarra Mercury, Sept. 28.)
An accident, which, unfortunately, terminated fatally, occurred on the Mount Keira incline on Friday afternoon last. The mine being at work, a man named Thomas Allum…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sad Deaths by Drowning at Gosford. (By Telegraph from our Correspondent.) Gosford, Monday morning
A sad and fatal accident occurred here early on Sunday morning, resulting in the death of three persons. Dr. Lowson, late of Merriwa, accompanied by a man named Robert Judge, and a lad named…
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A SAD and fatal accident occurred at Gosford on Sunday morning, resulting the death of three persons. Dr. Lowson (late of Merriwa), accompanied by a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boat Accident at Gosford.— Turee Lives Lost. Full Particulars
On Sunday last, the 4th October instant, the inhabitants of the township of Gosford, in Brisbane Water, were struck with consternation by the intelligence that a fatal boat…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mail Extracts. Railway Collision in a Tunnel
An alarming accident occurred last week upon the Midland Railway, about 25 miles south of Settle. As an express train was running northwards through the Bleamoor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Collision between the Steamers Glenelg and Duckenfield
On Thursday evening, says the S. M. Herald, a collision took place in the harbour between two steamers—the Glenelg, outward bound to Adelaide, and the Duckenfield, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Accidents on the Extension Line. (Tamworth News, Nov. 30.)
On Monday evening (22nd) about 7 o'clock the day gang, at cutting 98, on the line of extension, knocked off work, and the night gang took their places. Almost immediately…
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ON Monday evening (22nd) about 7 o'clock the day gang, at cutting 98, on the line of extension, knocked off work, and the night gang took their places…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →District News. (From our Correspondent.) Paterson. Serious Accident to Constable Dummett
On Monday evening Constable Dummett, of our police force, had been to the residence of Mr. William Keppie on business, and in leaving he took some papers out of his pocket…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Accident on the Northern Railway Works. (Tamworth News, December 10.)
A correspondent kindly informs us of an accident which happened near the Macdonald River, on Friday last. It appears that a party of men had fired off six dynamite shots,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Maitland Mercury. Tuesday, December 21, 1880. Sad Death by Drowning
A melancholy case of death by drowning, and one that should act as a caution to bathers who are unable to swim, occurred in the Hunter River, at West Maitland, early on Sunday morning. It seems that…
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SIR,—I was in the water at the time the body was brought up by Mr. Taylor, and I am sure the distance was over twenty feet from any part of the baths. I am told this is the first case of the kind that has…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Melancholy Death by Drowning. (Wagga Wagga Express, Dec. 21.)
On Sunday afternoon the town received a severe shock in the sad intelligence that Mr. John Gordon, of the firm of Gordon and Shepherd, architects and surveyors, had been drowned in the Murrumbidgee while bathing. It appears that Mr. Gordon,…
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We regret to learn that the accident that occurred recently to Constable John Dummett, at the Paterson, has terminated fata[?]ly. The particulars of the unfortunate occurrence were published in our columns at the time of the accident. It seems…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gallant Rescue from Drowning. (From Monday's Newcastle Herald.)
Early yesterday morning one of the most courageous rescues from drowning was ma[?] [?]ocks on the Newcastle sho[?] we have [?]et had the p[?]easure of re[?]…
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