Railway Accident Near Hay
A serious railway accident happened on Thursday night on the branch of the great Southern Railway, between Junee and Hay, The axle of one of the trucks loaded with bricks broke, while the train…
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The Hay Railway Accident
Mre Hutchinson, Mite Turnbull, and Messra Lawrence, [?] and [?] are the person [?] in the railway accident be [?] Junee and Hay last night. Two of the persons [?]…
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A melancholy and fatal accident happened at Kiama on Friday last. The Rev. Fathers M[?]Grath and Clarke, while bathing in the breakers near Kendall’s Beach, were carried…
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A MAN named John Moller, white on the road to Rutherglen, last Friday, from Brown's Plains, with a load of wheat, fell off his dray, and a few hours afterwards…
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An alarming accident occurred on the 11th inst. to the tram which runs between Junee and Hay, at Grong Grong, about 13 miles from Narandera. It was a mixed train,…
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The Cowra Free Press reports that on the 14th inst. William Edments met his death by drowning in the Lachlan River, near Goolagong. It appears that Edments, who is known…
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A very sad case of drowning is reported in the Clarence Examiner as having occurred at Rocky Mouth on the 18th January. It appears that preparations were being made for…
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A boy named Henry Harris Archer was drowned in a waterhole at Waterloo on Friday afternoon. The deceased and two companions were playing around the hole in question, the…
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The Monaro Mercury gives the following particulars of the fatal accident which befel Mr. Commissioner King :—The deceased and Mr. Blaxland left Cooma in a buggy on the…
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A settler, named Thornley, was recently drowned at Northern Wairoa, Auckland, under rather peculiar circumstances. He was endeavoring, along with a Mr. Weight, to get a…
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On Sunday evening, at the High Church, the Rev. J R. Wardrop, M.A., referred, at the conclusion of his sermon, to the sad accident which took place lately on the Edward River, by which Mr William Bell, one of…
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At the inquest on the body of John Cottington, who died at Goulburn through being run by a railway engine, it was stated (as reported in the Southern Argus) by a witness…
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On Saturday afternoon at about half-past 4 o’clock a serious tramway accident occurred at the junction of Elizabeth and Liverpool-streets, Sydney. A motor with three tramcars left…
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A sad occurrence took place at the South Star mine, Daylesford, on the 15th inst., by which a miner named Henry D. Eddy was instantly killed. Deceased in company with…
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One night last week (the Bathurst Times reports) one of the goods trains was being shunted, and a young man named John Webster was engaged in the work. By mistake he uncoupled…
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A serious accident happened at the Flinders-street station, Melbourne, between 1 and 2 o’clock a.m. on Friday bust, when a Richmond special goods-train ran into a number of…
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The Forbes Gazette reports that on the 1st inst. Percival Lewis, eldest son of Mr. J. Lewis, stationer, met with a violent death. At six o’clock on that morning Mr. H. H. Hunt, head…
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A shocking and fatal mining accident occurred at the Long Tunnel claim Reedy Creek, near Kilmore, on Monday. It appears that two men named Henry and John…
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A serious railway collision occurred at the Clunes railway station shortly after 1 o’clock on the 15th mat. Owing, it is stated, to a mistake made by the pointsman (a young man…
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