Buggy Accident
WE are sorry to have to record that an accident happened to the brothers Messrs. George and William Fuller as they were returning to Kiama in their buggy from…
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Accident
ON Tuesday night a disturbance occurred amongst a small group of men in Terralong-street, resulting from some religious differences of opinion, and in the…
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We are sorry to state that Dr. Terrey met with an accident yesterday by which he sustained a simple fracture of the left leg below the knee. At about 11 o'clock…
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FURTHER particulars (says the Brisbane Courier) are to hand in regard to the fatal accident which occurred at the Morven railway station a few days ago…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible Colliery Accident. Frightful Catastrophe at Bulli Mine. Terrific Explosion, 70 Men Entombed! No Hopes Entertained of Recovering Any Alive. Women and Children Heartbroken. Bulli, Wednesday, 3.30 P.M.
A terrific gas explosion occurred in the Bulli pit at about half-past 2 o'clock. Great excitement prevails. About 70 men were in the mine at the time of…
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A TELEGRAM White River Junction to the "San Francisco Bulletin," dated February the 5th, gives the following particulars of the terrible railway catastrophe, briefly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Grievance. Not Accident Box Design. (To the Editor of the Illawarra Mercury.)
SIR,—I hare read with much pleasure the leader in Tuesday's Mercury, anent the Minister's neglect to keep his promise of running trains on the 3rd section of the Illawarra railway, and of…
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FOR the past three days excitement has been running very high in consequence of a Melbourne telegram stating that H.M. troopship Tyno had been damaged severely…
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THE "Echo's" correspondent telegraphs that on Thursday night a terrible railway accident occurred near the Windsor station, resulting in the death of five passengers and…
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At about a quarter to 12 o'clock on Thursday night Inspector Douahoe, of the Water Police, received a telegram from Manly from Captain Cooper, of the Pomme de Terre, a well-known…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →North Illawarra Colliery Accident Fund. (to the Editor of the Illawarra Mercury.)
SIR,—In your issue of to-day, you reported that an accident fund was established at the North Illawarra Company's Works, and that out of it the widow of the late William Moon had received…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The North Illawarra Colliery Accident Fund. (To the Editor of the Illawarra Mercury.)
SIR,—It turns out that I was wrong in slating that only a part of the £100 had been paid by the North Illawarra Coal Company to Mrs. Moon. Need 1 say that it gives the pleasure to know my…
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Mr. John Moran, a well-known and respected resident of Calderwood, is supposed to have met his death by drowning on Thursday night, Moran had been tit a cattle sale at Figtree…
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The Queen's Jubilee Day has been commemorated in disaster as well as demonstration. An excursion train conveying some 250 passengers to Peat's Ferry became uncontrollable, the brakes…
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An accident resulting in the death of William Francis Ring occurred in the Mount Pleasant Colliery yesterday forenoon. Ring, who is a knock-about laborer at the mine, was engaged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Collision on the Illawarra Line. Ballast and Coal Trains Collide
Considerable excitement was caused in town on Thursday when it became known that the contractors' engine, "Gladstone," and the Mount Pleasant Coal Company's engine, "Illawarra No…
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CONSIDERABLE excitement was caused in town on Thursday when it became known that the contractor's engine. "Gladstone," and the Mount Pleasant Coal Company's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Peat's Ferry Railway Accident
THE fireman, Pye, is now in a fair way of recovery. At an interview on Friday he stated that the train had proceeded a mile and a half down the incline before the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Peat's Ferry Railway Accident. (Daily Telegraph.)
THE Queen's Jubilee Day was commemorated in disaster as well as demonstration. An excursion train conveying some 250 passengers to Peat's Ferry became…
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AT the inquest on the body of William Henry Hankin, who died of injuries received in connection with the railway disaster at the Hawkesbury on the 21st ultimo, Alfred…
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