Railway Collision
A serious railway collision occurred on Saturday night between two goods trains at Wallerawang. A special goods train from Esk Bank, while shunning in the station yard,…
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Terrible Accident in France. [By Submarine Cable.] Paris, June 11
A terrible accident has occurred in the town of Theirs, in the Department of Pays de Dome. A large crowd had assembled in the courthouse of the town, when the staircase collapsed,…
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The bodies of Mr. Patrick Gleeson, of Snakey Creek station, near Belfast, and a relative named O’Brien, were found on Friday in a swamp off the main road, about 20 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Terrible Colliery Accident. Twenty-two Bodies Recovered.one Hundred and Forty-two Entombed.[by Submarine Cable.] London, June 19
A terrible explosion occurred yesterday in a colliery at Pendlebury, near Salford, Lancashire. The bodies of 22 victims hare already been recovered, but there are still not less…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Cootamundra Railway Accident. Sydney
The action Adams v. Commissioner of Railways, in which plaintiff sued for damages in consequence of injuries received in the railway accident at Cootamundra, resulted to-day in…
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THE decision in the case, Adams v. the Commissioner of Railways? which arose out of the Cootamundra accident, is one which has excited a considerable amount of comment, and not a little…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Collision at Sea. London, July 22
A serious collision at sea occurred off the Corniah coast between the steamer Cheerful and H.M. torpedo depot ship Hecla, when the former Bank, and 13 persons were drowned…
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A singular bicycling accident occurred in Flinders-street, Melbourne, where the Richmond tramway is completed as far as the laying of the lines is concerned. A young man…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Fatal Accident. Wagga Wagga
A fatal accident happened to-day in Blylis-street. Yesterday a [?] named Charles Johnson, aged 53, who was working at Kyamba, was driving with his wife in a cart,…
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A man named James Patrick M‘Nally was lost in the Murray on Tuesday night at Gunbower. At about 7 o’clock M’Nally, who was wood splitting on the New South Wales side…
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A collision occurred in Sydney harbor on Saturday afternoon between the steamer Wentworth, outward-bound for Brisbane, and the ketch Lizzie Frost, inward bound with a cargo…
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The Maitland Mercury reports that Patrick O’Brien, a farmer, residing at Aberglasslyn, proceeded to the Hunter River, near his residence, to draw some water for domestic…
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A TERRIBLE accident happened to the Germanton coach, which left Albury as usual on the afternoon of Thursday, 27th August. About six miles…
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Shortly after 8 o’clock on Thursday night, the 27th ult., the inhabitants of the town were thrown into a stale of the greatest excitement by the announcement that the Albury coach…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Serious Shipping Accident. London, September 6
A serious accident happened yesterday in connection with the Orient Company’s R.M.S. Liguria, which arrived from Australia on the 15th ult. The gangway fell, killing one…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Sad Boating Accident in New Zealand
A boat accident of a particularly sad nature occurred near Otago Heads, New Zealand, on Sunday, 6th September. Captain James Fergusson, the Pore Chalmers agent of the Union…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The Caulfield Cup Fatality. Fall of Fifteen Horses. One Jockey Killed and Several Injured
At no previous Australian race meeting has there occurred so deplorable an accident as that which happened in the Caulfield Cup on Saturday. Fifteen horses fell,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sad. Fatality on the Murray, a Father and Son Drowned
A most distressing accident happened at Echuca on Monday. Captain Barnes, a well-known river mariner, and his son, a lad about 12 years of age, were drowned in the Murray,…
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IN the [?] of Australian racing, plentifully bestrewed as they are with records of accident to life and limb, no such calamity has occurred as that which last Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Caulfield Cup Fatality. Fall of Fifteen Horses. One Jockey Killed and Several Injured
In the history of Australian racing there is no other such unfortunate accident recorded as that which occurred in the Caulfield Cup on Saturday. The field of horses was, with a…
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