Accident to the Racehorse Sweetmeat
SYDNEY, Monday.—Whilst the racehorse Sweetmeat was being taken home from the Randwick racecourse, on Saturday last, he was frightened by a passing…
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Accidents, 1880
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Fatal Railway Accident in New Zealand
SYDNEY, Monday.—The train from the Wellington and Greytown railway, New Zealand, was blown over a precipice; three persons being killed, and several…
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AN accident occurred on Saturday night in Hannell-street, Wickham. It seems that a couple of omnibuses were being driven along that street,…
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LONDON, September 12.—A disastrous railway accident occurred at Vauxhall, on the South-Western Line. Two trains came into collision. The result was an almost…
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MR. C. B. RANCLAUD, the district coroner, held an inquest yesterday, at Harris' Co-operative Hotel, Wallsend, on the body of James Mitchell, a miner, who had met…
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A CURIOUS accident occurred on Saturday last to a little boy, nine years of age, named Alex. Chapman, living in Warrnambool. The Examiner says that "his…
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THE Wellington Gazette reports that a dreadful accident, resulting in the tearing off of an arm, happened on Thursday to a lad employed on the railway line. It…
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A FINE little boy, named Thompson, met his death last Monday, evening through having fallen into a tank at Plattsburg His mother, who lives next door to the…
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MR. HENRY LUCRE, of the Woolpack Inn, Evans' Plains (says the Western Independent) met with an accident which will, at the least, necessitate his remaining in bed…
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WE have to record the most terribly sensational, railway casualty, and that of most serious cost in life and limb, which has occurred in New Zealand…
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A FATA accident occurred on Friday evening to a miner named Thomas Allan at Mount Keira Colliery. It seems that he was run over by a waggon on the…
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A SAD accident, resulting fatally, occurred yesterday morning, to a young man named William Whitfield, employed as a carpenter on some new buildings at the…
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YESTERDAY afternoon the District Coroner held an inquest at the Hunter River Hotel, Newcastle, on the body of Robert Wm. Whitfield, found dead on certain…
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YESTERDAY morning, the District Coroner held an inquest at the" Northern Star Hotel, Hamilton, on the body of a boy named Herbert George Warburton, found…
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WE hear that the unfortunate man Greenhaugh, who met with an accident at the Smelting Works about a fortnight since is still in a very bad state, and it will in all…
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The Maitland Mercury reports that during the second day of the races an accident occurred on the ground during the afternoon, but happily unattended…
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THE passage of the ship Cape of Good Hope, which arrived at this port on Saturday from Middleborough, England, was marked by a tragic event whilst off…
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SIR,—Yesterday a miner named Ayliffe hurt himself while lifting a skip of coal on to the road. He felt very little pain at the time, and not…
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LONDON, October 12.—His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught has met with a slight accident by a fall from his horse…
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NEW YORK, October 11.—Another terrible railway accident is reported as having occurred to-day. An excursion train on Pittsburg Railway, containing a large…
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