Railway Accident at Newcastle
A TRAIN of empty waggons from the West Burwopd Colliery was running into town towards Newcastle on Monday, when the door of one waggon in…
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A Shocking Accident
[?]tality took place at Mulgrove on Wednesday morning (the [?] Telegraph states), which has quite a gloom over the district. It…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CABLEGRAMS' [From Grevillr's Telegram CO.] g LONDON. Monday. the Quebec Accident
Thirty-six deaths are known to have been caused by the recent great fall of rock in Quebec, and 26 persons are still entombed [?] the ruins…
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THE Rockhampton correspondent of the Brisbane Courier states that a serious accident happened at the railway station on Tuesday evening. About 5 o'clock…
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A RAILWAY accident took place at 2 o'clock at Quirindi on Saturday afternoon on the northern side of the Quirindi railway station. A train, in charge of Thomas Garter (driver)…
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A number of discoveries have been made by what is called "accident." I shall adduce a few examples of this peculiar kind. At the same time I firmly believe that these chance occurrences form…
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A young man named Duncan Rankin, a blacksmith at Jerilderie while out boating on the creek there, was by the force of the current carried over a dam. The boat…
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At the Albury Circuit Court yesterday, Mr Geo. M'Lallan and wife brought on their action, claiming £1000 damages from the Hon J. Balfour, M.L.A., of Victoria, of…
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Mrs Hawke, wife of an old resident of Dubbo, accidentally poisoned herself this morning by taking acetic acid in mistake for Cod Liver oil…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident to a Mail Coach. (Namoi Independent, Oct. 12.)
News arrived in Gunnedah early on Thursday morning that an accident had occurred to the Coonabarabran coach about l8 miles from Gunnedah. The following particulars of the occurrence…
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A STRANGE and awful sight was witnessed off Bradley's Head shortly after 10 o'clock on Monday morning by Messrs Edmonds, Riley, and T. Punch. These gentlemen were…
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Jas. Fechan, aged 18, while working at the Eveleigh railway workshop today got his legs entangled in the achinery and both of them sustained a…
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Another body making the fourth was recovered from the Irene boat accident this morning. The body is that of Miss Stewart…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Singular Accident while Ploughing. (Manning River Times.)
An accident of a singular nature, and one that has entailed great loss upon a person not very well able to bear it, occurred at Oxley Island, near Redbank, on Tuesday morning, Oct. 8. It appears that…
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A TERRIBLE drowning fatality occurred at Wentworth on Tuesday. Richard Gurney, being about to leave home for some time, took his wife and Seven children for a picnic…
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A terrible drowning fatality occurred this afternoon. Richard Gurney, being about to leave home to-morrow for some time, took his wife and seven children for a picnic near the Yelta mission station…
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The police are still dragging for the body of the girl Thomson and young Kippax, two of the victims of the Irene boating fatality…
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ON Wednesday evening a shocking accident occurred at East Maitland which nearly terminated fatally. Henry O'Brien, whose father resides at the railway gates on the…
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AMERICAN telegrams announce the snapping of the cable of an inclined tramway at Cincinnatti. The car, which was ascending when the accident took place, was smashed…
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ON Wednesday morning early an accident, which fortunately was not attended with any very serious consequences, occurred on the western line at Lapstone Hill, on the First…
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