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12 stories in New England's papers
A FRIGHTFUL accident occurred on Wednesday afternoon during the firing of the salute in honor of the opening of parliament. The gun at which this terrible event occurred was the first…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE S. M. Herald of March 12 says:--Another very painful coasting disaster has to be added to the long black list. The Barrabool (s), which arrived in Port Jackson yesterday morning from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE New York 'Post' has for two days given its most prominent columns to the development of the theory of T. S. Lambert that drowned persons are not dead…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE New York Post has for two days given its most prominent columns to the development of the theory of T. S. Lambert that drowned persons are not dead, but are simply…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,--In the last two issues of your paper I read statements relative to an accident which occurred to one of the men (Corbett) while working in the Company's Mine at Graveyard…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SERIOUS accident occurred (says the Warwick Examiner') at the tunnel, on the Stanthorpe line of railway, on Thursday, August 28, by which one man met…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →COLONEL B. S. Ford, State Senator from Queen Anne county, Md., President of the Chester River Steamboat Company, was drowned in the surf on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WE regret having to record a very serious mishap that occurred yesterday to the excursion, train which was on its return journey to Newcastle with a large number…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A RETURN train to Newcastle, conveying the railway employees from their holiday picnic, met with an accident at New Freugh, on Monday night, 20th inst. The accident caused the greatest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Cooktown Herald of the 22nd says:--A sad mishap transpired at Finch's Bay on Sunday morning last by which three little girls, the respective daughters of Messrs. Clunn and Shambrook of this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two young men, accompanied by two ladies, bent on pleasure, started down the harbour about nine o'clock yesterday morning in a boat they had hired from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ON the 2nd October a terrible, accident occurred at Adrian, Michigan, resulting in, a heavy loss, of life and the serious injury of scores of persons, many of whom will die. Since the…
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