Serious Accident. Supposed to Fall From a Train. [By Telegraph] Sydney
SHORTLX before one o'clock this morning Captain A. M. Fisher, an expolice was admitted to the Sydney Hospital, suffering from a…
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A Strange Accident. And Fortunate Escapes
On Wednesday afternoon a goods trains left Quirindi railway station, going towards Sydney, about 3.20 o'clock. The driver was Solomon…
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A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest on the bodies of the two boys who were run over by the tram at Hurstville yesterday…
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A shocking accident occurred yesterday afternoon at Hurstville, resulting in the death of two children, John Henry Sparks, aged five years, and Michael James Fahey, aged four. They are supposed to have…
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A disastrous fire occurred early this morning in Wellington, when the Oriental Hotel, a fine three-storey building, was totally destroyed. The fire broke out about two o'clock, when nearly all the…
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A SHOCKING accident ocuarred on Sunday afternoon at Huratville, resulting in the death of two children, John Henry Sparks, aged five years, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidental Death. The Murdering Railway. [By Telegraph] Sydney
AN inquest was held to-day on the bodies of two boys named Sparkes and Fabay, who were killed yesterday by the train whilst they were crossing…
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A man named James McPherson, aged 30, was killed at Ultimo to-day through the collapse of a timber stack. Two others, named Rees and Jones, were also badly injured…
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The North Shore ferry steamers Kurraba and Bunya Bunya collided off Dawes Point at ten o'clock this morning. Both vessels, which were going at full speed at the time, sustained a good deal of…
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A wostward-bound immigrant train travelling on the Soneca-Wabash railway collided with an ordinary passenger tram. Eighty passengers were killed and 150 severely injured…
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ON Monday night last, two Muswellbrook residents, Messrs. J. Lenane and R. Cafe, bad a lively experience in Kelly-street, just as they…
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A shocking accident occurred on Sunday afternoon at Hurstville, resulting in the death of two children. John Henry Sparks, aged five years, and Michael James Fahey, aged four. They are supposed to have…
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SHORTLY after noon on Thursday a serious accident, which resulted in the death of a man named John M'Pherson, occurred at Messrs Saxton and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fearful Railway Accident An Emigrant Train Smashed. The Cars Take Fire. Eighty Killed ;150 Injured. [By Cable] London
A TERRIBLE railway disaster has just been cabled from America as having occurred on the Wabash Railway. It s[?]ems that a train bound west…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disastrous Eire at Wellington. Several Persons Badly Injured. Miraculous Escapes. Auckland
A disastrous fire occurred early this morning in Wellington, whoa the Oriental Hotel, a fine three-storey building, was totally destroyed. The five broke out about two o'clock, when nearly all the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A Fearful Railway Disaster. an Immigrant Train Wrecked Eighty Persons Killed. One Hundred and Fifty Injured. London, Nov. 20
A disastrous railway collision occurred on the Wabash railway, United States. A train convoying immigrants bound west came into collision at Seneca with a passenger train proceeding…
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Fred: J had a fall last night which rendered me unconscious for several hours. Ed.; You don't mean it? Where did…
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A young man named Donald Wallace, 22 years of age, was out at Ashfield Estate on Wednesday and picked up on old muzzle loader gun to have a shot At a hare. The weapon failing to discharge, Wallace…
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Walter Edwards, 18 years of ago, a rope-maker, living at North Botany, was brought to the Hospital this morning with a bullet wound in his leg. It was stated that the injured youth and a friend had…
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A terrible Occident occurred at Leighton's mine, Bethnngra, Albury district, yesterday. While Gurry Blanchfield was engaged timbering at the 800 feet level, some tons of lode slipped off the wall,…
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