Fatal Railway Accident
A fatal railway accident took place on the Murrumburrah and Blaney railway, near Cowra. The rails were displaced from the sleepers. The engine and two…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1893
35 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 2
News by Wire. Terrible Railway Colision. London
Nineteen persons were burned to death and seventy seriously injured in a colision between an express and a goods train at Alton, Illinois…
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Further accounts of the disaster at Alton, Illinois, show that the total number of persons injured by the collision of…
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A train left the rails at Como yesterday, and three railway officials were slightly injured…
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The Sydney train to Bathurst had a narrow escape from a terrible accident yesterday, two rails having been placed by some miscreant across the rails near…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods on the Macleay. a Phenomenal Rainfall the Highest Rise Since 1875. Houses Inundated. People Rescued in Boats. Enormous Damage to Property. Extensive Slips on the Armidale Road. Farms Partly Washed Away. the State of Clybucca and Seven Oaks. Eventful Passage of Burrawong the Impending Distress. Prompt Action of the Municipal Authorities. a Public Meeting Called. Full Details
OLD residents have to carry their memories back to 1875 to recall a more disastrous flood than that which swept over Kempsey and the…
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IT has now become a matter of moral certainty that the main employment which the people, at any rate of the outlying portions of this district, may…
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A railway employee named Barrie McGill, while on a trolly on the Southern railway, was accidentally killed…
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Mr. Eddy, Chief Commissioner of Railways, protests against an attempt being made by Parliament to effect retrenchment in the railway service…
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Mr. O. O. Dangar, M.L.A., wiring to us last night stated that strong representations had been made to the Works Department to cause all votes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Gloucester Road. to the Editor of the Independent
SIR,—Under the above heading there appears a short paragraph in last issue of your contemporary. Similar remarks were made during a portion…
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MESSRS. BROWN, MARSHALL, and Co., Saltley, have, the Birmingham Daily Post says, just built a new train for the Peninsular and Oriental Company, to run between…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kempsey to Crescent Head (via Dulcoonghi) Road. To the Editor
SIR,--Our Government is evidently lacking concentrative power, as is evidenced by the way they play fast and loose with questions and interests affecting the general welfare of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Opening Kiama-nowra Railway Sydney
The opening ceremony of the Kiama-Nowra railway was performed by the Governor yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Damage done to Roads and Bridges. Action by the Borough Council
A SPECIAL meeting of the Kempsey Borough Council was held on Thursday evening, to consider matters with respect to the damage done to municipal property…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Public Meeting at Pee Dee. the State of the Roads
At a public meeting held at Pee Dee on the 22nd inst., Mr. E. M. Scott in the chair, the following motions were adopted:--…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Run Over by a Train. a Supposed Burglar Killed
ON Saturday last, as the express train from Sydney was speeding along in the direction of Maitland, a little above Huxham Station, two men were observed walking along the…
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A DEPUTATION consisting of the Mayor (Ald. Gilfillan), Alds. W. T. Dangar, Bond, Dighton, Fitzpatrick, Messrs. Chas. Sutherland and P. M. Hart,…
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Sir,--Regarding a deputation consisting of the Mayor and six other Kempsey residents having interviewed on Wednesday, the 9th instant, at the Roads Office, West Kempsey,…
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Two or three friends and myself loft Whitehaven about three years ago, taking the L. and N.W. train for Ravensglass. Arrived there, we crossed the metals and…
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