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66 stories in Murray's papers · page 3 of 4
Daring a typhoon at Port Arthur, in the north of China, a Chinese torpedo-boat destroyer was driven ashore. It is reported that 133 Chinese officers and men were…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →The news of the destruction of Admiral Cervera's Spanish fleet is fully is fully confirmed. The story far excels in sensational interest that of the battle fought in the Bay of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News has been received of a disaster at sea to an American steamer, under sensational circumstances. The vessel was the steamer Delaware, of…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →The steamer Wendouree went ashore at Newcastle this morning, and quickly filled with water. The crew, with the exception of captain and chief engineer, abandoned the…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The steamer Oldfield reports that when off Sable Island, east of Nova Scotia, a ghastly spectacle met the eyes of those on board…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →The United States cruiser Columbin, of Admiral Sampson's squadron, which is taking part in the naval operations at Ponce, a port on the south coast of Porto Rice, at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Following closely upon the recent disastrous explosion at the Victoria Military Barracks, Melbourne, and while the terribly fatal explosion at the Colonial Ammunition…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →A serious disaster to a British war-ship is reported from Cape Town. A first-class torpedo-boat has been wrecked at Simonstown, the naval station in South Africa, 20…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Fuller information is now available of the wreck of the American barquentine C. C. Funk of Flinders Island. The mail ketch Linda, which reported the…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →A shocking catastrophe is reported from Siberia. A number of Russian convicts were being conveyed by river from Tiumen, in the government of Tobolsk, to Tomsk…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →The French cruiser La Perouse, 2372 tons, 23 guns, has ben wrecked off the coast of Madagasear, by a tidal wave. Genreal Gallieni, the governor-general and…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →The ship Firth of Cromarty, 1,528 tons, owned by Messrs. J. Spencer and Co., of Glasgow, which left that port for New South Wales, has gone above at Corsewall Point…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →The Sticker Chief, a vessel trading with Alaska, has been wrecked off the coast of that country, 40 lives being lost…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →The Union Co.'s steamer Mapourika, Captain M'Lean commander, went ashore at North Tip Head, at the entrance to Greymouth.N.Z., on Sunday. She is likely to become a total…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →In the evening at the Mechanics' Institute a large audience assembled to hear the service of song, entitled "The wreck of the Wairapa." This too consisted of a number…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →A terrible disaster has occurred on the south-west coast of Cornwall, resulting in the sinking of the New London Steamboat Company's liner Mohegan, 2784 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Severe gales are raging on the British coasts. So tempestuous a as the weather been in the English Channel that the steam service to Calais and Ostend has…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →A serious loss of life has been caused in Japan by a collision between two steamers. The number of people who lost their lives is stated at 60…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →The steam tug Port Jackson went ashore early thin morning at Catherine Hill Bay, while towing the barques Hannah Nicholson and Handa Isle to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A disastrous explosion of gas has occurred in the vaults of the Supreme Court at Washington, which are beneath the Senate Chamber in the Capitol. The building was…
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