Fatal Accident
A little girl named Stewart was accidentally killed at 6 o’clock on Tuesday evening. She and a brother, who is a few years older, and several children were playing at the residence of…
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The Recent Railway Accident Near New York. Arrest of the Directors. London, March 7
Last month a terrible railway accident occurred in the United States. A passenger train into an empty train in a tunnel near New York. Several carriages were set on…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Sad Boating Fatality. Three Girls Drowned
A sad boating accident happened on Monday at the Terara wharf, two miles down the Shoalhaven River from Nowra. Five girls named Winnie Griffiths, aged 18 years; Maud…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Collision Off the Scilly Islands. the Steamer Roxburgh Castle Sunk. Twenty-two Lives Lost
A terrible disaster has occurred off the Scilly Islands. The steamer Roxburg Castle, 1844 tons, belonging to Messrs. Stephens and Mawson, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, came into…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →News of the World by Cable. Collision Near Gibraltar. the Steamer Utopia Sunk in Ten Minutes. a British Launch Destroyed. Several Seamen Drowned. London, March 18
Further particulars have been received respecting the terrible collision off Gibraltar, by which the steamer Utopia, 1754 tons, of the Anchor line, bound for New York with…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Accidental Hypnotism
A very curious story (remarks a London paper) comes from Philadelphia. An in-inhabitant of that town, a Mr. Stearne, was on the point of leaving home with his…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fearful Accident at Middle Head. Sydney
A terrible accident occurred at Middle Head yesterday afternoon, resulting in the death of four men and the injury of eight others. About five o'clock preparations were made…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Terrible Accident at the Queenscliff Fort. Two Artillery Men Killed
The second day’s practice of the Garrison Artillery at the Heads was marked by a most unfortunate catastrophe at Queenscliff Fort, causing the instant death of two militia men…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Fatal Shooting Accident
A fatal shooting accident occurred at the Sunday Creek, a few miles from Kilmore, on Sunday evening. A party of four lads, named Charles St. George Smith, William Graham,…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →A Shocking Fatality. Sydney. Friday, April [?]
A terrible explosion occurred at Middle Head this afternoon. Lieutenants [?] and Bedford, [?] McKee sad trumpeter Bennett were killed, and a number of others were seriously injured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fearful Torpedo Accident at Sydney
A terrible torpedo explosion occurred off Middle Head on Friday afternoon. The men in the boat at the time of the explosion were Lieutenant Hammond (the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Theatrical Accident. London, April 2
A singular fatality is reported from Manchester. At a performance of “Romeo and Juliet” an amateur named Whalley, who was acting the part of Marentio, was accidentally…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Explosion at Zanzibar. Thirteen Persons Killed and Eighteen Injured. London, April 11
Intelligence has been received from Zanzibar bar that an explosion of gunpowder occurred close to the palace of the Sultan. Thirteen persons were killed and 18 injured…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →An Accidental Reform
In drafting the consolidation statute passed during last session of Parliament (says the Melbourne Argus), the Chief Justice unconsciously effected an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible Railway Accident
A telegram sent from New York to the San Francisco papers February 29 says;— “A horrible accident occurred early this morning in the middle railway tunnel…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Deaths From Accidental Poisoning
At Adelaide an elderly man and his son, both named Richard Stokes, died on Sunday with symptoms of having been poisoned, it was at first supposed through…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Artillery and Torpedo Accidents
THE two appalling accidents which have recently occurred, the one at Queenscliff in Victoria, and the other in Sydney, have naturally to the expression of much sympathy with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrific Explosion at Rome. Several Persons Killed and 260 Injured. the Windows at the Vatican and St. Peter's Injured. the Pope Much Shaken. London, April 23
Great alarm was caused at Rome to-day by a terrible explosion, which was found to proceed from a magazine, where 250 tons of gunpowder was stored. The building was…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Fatal Buggy Accident. a Well-known Settler Killed
A sad buggy accident occurred at Yarra Glen on Thursday afternoon, Mr. James Thompson, an old and respected resident of Kangaroo Ground, and owner of the…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Shocking Gun Accident
A most distressing fatal accident occurred on Tuesday a Stony Point, near the terminus of the Crib Point railway. It appears that two brothers, Stafford John Dickson and…
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