Cyclone in the China Seas. 2,000 Fishermen Drowned
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 19 April 1890 · page 6
Advices just received at Queenstown from Yokohama, dated January 30, contain details of a fearful cyclone which swept along the Japanese coast from January 24 to January 26, causing the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accident on the Railway at Quirindi. (Murrurundi Times.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 19 April 1890 · page 6
On Saturday evening last, shortly after the mail train left the local platform, the cries of a mau were heard from the street, and a little while later it was ascertained that a man named…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Curious Railway Accidents
Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 April 1890 · page 4
As the 985 train from Sydney was approsehing Patersham on Wednesday night the passengers were astonished to find the whole train suddenly strewn by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Blasting Accident
Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 April 1890 · page 4
A MAN named Frederick Schoefiler had nousrrum escape from being killed on Thursday, wliles at work at Katoomba. He was blastrug away some earth and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rescued from Drowning
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 April 1890 · page 3
A MAN named Abraham Charles Turner resoned a girl of 8 years of age, named M'Grath, from drowning in the Murrumbidgee, at Wagga, shortly before 6…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Flood at Bourke. One Man Drowned
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 April 1890 · page 2
A STEADY and unyielding struggle against the forces of nature by the inhabitants of Bourke was maintained until the last ray of hope disappeared…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Mining Accident. Distressing Circumstances
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 April 1890 · page 4
A MINER named John Hughes met with his death on Monday in the Newcastle Goal Company's B pit at about half-past 12 o'clock. It appears that Hughes and his mnte, named…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams. [From Greville's Telegram Co.] Sudney, Monday Fatal Accident
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 April 1890 · page 2
The young girl A damson, who was burnt at paddington through the bursting of a kerosene lamp, died this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Mining Accident at Clones
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 April 1890 · page 3
A FATAL, mining accident occurred at Clunes (Vie.) on Monday. A miner named Thomes Davis, engaged in the Port Phillip Company's Mine,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Railway Accident near Bathurst. 5 OR 6 Passengers Killed Several Hundered Sheep Killed (By Telegraph.) Sydney
Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 April 1890 · page 3
THERE has been a terrible railway accident a car Bathurst. The mixed train left there as usual at 5.30 this afternoon, and when near Raglan, which is about four miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Terrible Railway Accident at Bathurst. (By telegraph to the Herald.) Bathurst
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 April 1890 · page 2
A frightful railway accident happened here this evening, resulting in the instantaneous death of three passengers, in addition to which several persons were seriously hurt. At about 7 o'clock a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Fatal Railway Accident. Four Killed. Several Injured
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 30 April 1890 · page 2
WITH reference to the railway fatality near Bathurat briefly reported in our last issue fuller particulars are now to hand. From the Daily Telegraph report it appears that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Accident near Werris Creek. a Fettler Seriously Injured
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 30 April 1890 · page 4
A VERY serious accident to a railway fettier named Marshall occurred on Saturday night ear. Worris Creek, Marshall was in the act of jumping off the mail train whilst in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Removing the Dead and Injured
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 30 April 1890 · page 2
Sad and sickening as was the sight it was [?]adder still to discover the flesh and blood of human beings. As it stood still upon the metals, but 30 or 40 yards away, where it had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Loss of Life and Condition of the Injured
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 30 April 1890 · page 2
The total fatalities comprise the loss of four lives, as would be gathered from the foregoing. The boy O'Conner died soon after reaching the dstrict hospital, where all the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Accident on the Dubbo Racecourse. Result of Overtraining
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 30 April 1890 · page 2
At Dubbo on Saturday the Picnic Races were unfortunately merred by a fatal accident, Mr Thomas M. Keogh, of Warrana station, wan riding his own…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Accident at Bathurst. (Herald.) Bathurst
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 1 May 1890 · page 2
The inquest on the railway fatality was resumed to-day before Mr. W. A. Steel, P.M. and Coroner, and a jury of 12, in the courthouse. There was a large attendance of the public. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Drowning of General Elphinstone
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 3 May 1890 · page 3
The following particulars regarding the drowning of General Elphinstone have come to hand:—At half-past nine o'clock, on the night named, when the Tongariro was at the mouth of the Channel,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Terrible Railway Accident at Bathurst
The Scone Advocate · Saturday 3 May 1890 · page 4
A SHOCKING railway accident occurred at Bathurst on Friday evening by which three persons lost their, lives and several were seriously injured. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Accident at Bathurst
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 3 May 1890 · page 7
A number of witnesses were examined on Tuesday and Wednasday at the adjourned inquest on the body of Rebecca Franklin, killed in the railway collision at Bathurst on Friday last. The evidence…
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