A Railway Fatality. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
AT Carrington this morning James Rice, a gatekeeper on the railway, stationed at the Young-street gates, was run over by an eugine and killed…
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A Disastrous Wreck. Twenty-two Passengers Drowned. [By Cable] London
THE shipping offices have recoived advice of a disastrous wreck at Barclay Sound, an inlet on the southwestern coast of Vanconver Island…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Narrandera. Accidental Death of a Squatter
William Low, the owner of Mimosa Station, was killed on Saturday evening. He came into Narrandera to meet his young daughter, who hud just returned from school for the holidays, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accidents on the Railway. Two Men Killed. One Injured
About 11.20 last night themas patrick Kierney and John Murray, labourers, were struck by the train from Huretville, and so far as could be ascertained this morning, were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Curious Fatality in Queensland. Brisbane
A Serious railway accident occurred between Wyandra and Cunnamulla, on a section of the rail-way line now under construction. Very brief particulars are to hand, but it seems the contractors…
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A LITTLE lad named Willie Roberts was drowned in the Woronara River on Saturday afternoon. The Rev. Mr Rivett, of the Anglican Church,…
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An aboriginal at Inglewood (Q.) has killed another with a razor, and injured two gins, one of whom is not expected to recover…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Teamster Injured
On Saturday, while a teamster named John Coady, of Wollombi, was engaged rounding up some bullocks on the Whittingham Reserve, his horse slipped and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Fatality at Corrinngton
The young man named James Rice, who was killed at the Young-street gates Carrington, last Friday, was a nephew of Mr T. Seldon, of the Agricultural Hotel,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Railway Accident One Man Killed and Two Injured [By Telegraph.] Brisbane
A SERIOUS railway accident has occurred between Wyandra and Cunnamulla on the section of the railway line now under construction. Very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sad Drowning Fatality at Belford. Heroic Efforts of a Boy to Save His Brother
A sad case of drowning was reported as having occurred at Belford on Wednesday evening last, at about 6 o'clock, The Victim was a lad named…
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A distressing accident occurred at Orange yesterday afternoon about 4 o'clock, by which two girls named I[?] aged 11, and Matgery, aged 9 daughters of Mr. H. A. Crouch, district surveyor…
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A lad named Antoine Taula was killed at Bendigo yesterday by being caught in a mining battery…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents on the Railways. Sydney
About 11.30 last night Thomas Patrick Kierney and John Murray, labourers, were struck by the train from Hurstville, and so far as could be ascertained this morning, were killed…
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A terrible fatal accident occurred on the railway line at Carrington coal shoots on Friday morning. A railway employee named James Rice, whose widowed mother lives in West Maitland, was run…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fatal Railway Accident. a Lady Crushed to Death. Sydney, Tuesday afternoon
A shocking railway accident occurred at Mac-donald Town station late last night, resulting in the death of Mrs. Fanny Edmundson, a widow, aged 58 years. In company with her noice(Mrs…
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JOHN CARR, a miner, from Plattsburg, fell over the cliffs near Shepherd's Hill, Newcastle, on Sunday, and was killed on the spot. The deceased,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Railway Fatality
AN elderly woman met with a sad death at Macdonaldtown on Monday night. She had joined the 11.5 p.m. train from Sydney, and having barely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamers in Collision
ON Monday afternoon the steamer Princess, whilst leaving Circular Quay for Athol Gardens with some hundreds of passengers, mostly women…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Sewerage Accident
The worst fears were realised in connection with the presence of foul air in the tunnel, at South Yarra in which an accident (reported in our last issue) occurred yesterday, and it is now known that…
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