Railway Accident
Yesterday evening, four carriages jumped the points and the last carriage fell on its side. Several women were taken out in a fainting condition, but…
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Fatal Accident
A young man named Patrick Lawler, while returning from a funeral, near Taralga, was thrown from his horse and killed…
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A REPORT has just reached Newcastle that portion of the A. A. Company's colliery at Glebe has fallen in, and that a number of miners are entombed. Mr. Dixon…
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THE ship Sardomene, which arrived in Melbourne on Tuesday, had a narrow escape from disaster by collision with another vessel when off Cape Otway on…
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THE ex-champion sculler, William Beach, had a narrow escape from drowning whilst out rowing, on Monday afternoon, on the Illawarra Lake with his son. The boat…
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WHAT nearly promised to be a fatal boati accident occurred at Conningbame onj Sunday afternoon (writes the correspondent of the ARGUS). Three fishermen,…
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A TERRIBLE railway accident occurred at 7.30 p.m. yesterday at the Dronin Railway Station, on the Gippsland line. A goods train was shunted on to the main…
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MISS Kate Watson, third daughter of Mr. Watson, of the firm of Messrs. J. B. Young and Co., shipbrokers, Glasgow, lost her life in…
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A TERRIBLE fatality occurred in Elizabethstreet on Tuesday morning at Messrs. Cheetam Bros. razor and scissors grinding works. A grindstone, four feet by…
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The body of a young lady, named Kate Cooper, niece of Mr. T. Purrett, farmer, of Someries, near Luton, has been recovered from an old…
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A RAILWAY accident took place at 2 o'clock this afternoon on the northern side of the Quirindi railway station. A train, in charge of Thomas Carter (driver) and…
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ON Tuesday afternoon Richard Gurney took his wife and seven children for a picnic near the Yelta mission station, four miles down the Murray, in a boat. As the…
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THE body of the unfortunate girl [the finding of which was reported in oar Tuesday's issue] has since been identified by the parents as Mary Fahey, who resided…
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ON Tuesday night Professor Higgins and Miss De Voy were announced to make a balloon ascent from the Manchester racecourse, and to descend by means of…
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A HORRIBLE fatal accident occurred at noon on Tuesday at Molong. James Black, the son of Mr. John Black, owner of the local flour mills was running an…
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A FARMER named Robert Lamden, residing at Wharparilla, Victoria, while proceeding home this morning with a horse and cart, was backed into a chasm ten…
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A. TERRIBLE accident occurred at Marrar, near Junee, on Thursday. While Christopher Fairweather, a selector was driVing a reaper and binder, he saw his little…
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A SAD case of drowning occurred at Bulli on Monday morning. At about 10.30 o'clock the body of Mrs. John Shearing was found in a waterhole at a creek…
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A LITTLE boy, son of a man named Range, living at East Kempsey, was killed on Saturday. While leaning over and looking into a box the lid fell and broke the…
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