A Dreadful Steamer Collision
A CALCUTTA telegram to the Times of India, dated November 6, states that about half-past 6 o'clock on Monday evening the tug steamer…
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Drowned While Bathing
Two youths named William Ratterburn and Alfred Peackley were drowned yesterday, while bathing in Cook's River, near Marrickville…
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ON Saturday the news of the accidental shooting of a young man named William Day, at Stockton, cast quite a gloom over the township. The whole of the…
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A railway tunnel at the Swansea Railway, near Rhonda, South Wales, collapsed, and seven workmen were killed…
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ANOTHER fatality resulting from the careless use of firearms occurred on Saturday afternoon, when a little girl named Florence Clark, aged 3 years, residing with…
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The ship Large Bay, bound for Auckland, came into collision with a steamer In the English Charfhel, and was towed to Spithead in a sinking condition. An…
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THE French papers devote a paragraph to an extraordinary accident that occurred recently in a village in the Department of the Charente,…
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THERE was another railway accident on Friday. The goods train from Melbourne to Geelong ran off the line. Thirty two trucks, after crossing the bridge, over…
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At an inquest held on H. Currie, killed while jumping into a train while in motion, a verdict of accidental death was returned, and no blame is attached to the…
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A servant girl, named Margaret Darcy, fell from the platform of a railway carriage at South Melbourne station. By grasping the platform, she succeeded in…
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J. Fleming, employed at the Redfern Station, was knocked down by the engine and dragged 80 yards, but received no serious injuries…
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A serious railway accident occurred on Sunday morning, two miles south of the Junee junction. A mixed goods and passenger train, consisting of a first-class…
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A visitor named George Merman fell off the rocks at Bo[?]di Aquarium and was killed…
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Mary M'Grath, a domestic in the employ of Mr. Bartlett of Summer Hill, was killed at Croydon on Saturday night, she having apparently fallen or jumped out of…
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There was a serious railway accident near Narandera, on Sunday afternoon, through the train running off the rails, owing to a washaway on Jerilderie line…
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The further accounts of the Narandera railway smash, show that six men are more or less injured and one (A. M'Lennan) is reported to be dying. The train…
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A collision occurred off the coast of Portugal between the steamer John Williamson and another vessel. The John Williamson sank, but it is understood all…
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A collision at sea has occurred off the Phillipine islands, by which sixty-six persons were drowned…
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THE mail train from the south was doomed to be most unfortunate on its way to the north yesterday. About 13 miles on the Sydney side of Newcastle, a landslip…
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THE mail train capsized into the river near Muswellbrook, this morning, but all the passengers were saved…
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