Found Drowned
ADELAIDE, Thursday.—The body of Widgery, the missing railway contractors' clerk, has been found in a creek. The missing money was found on him intact…
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Accidents, 1884
479 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 24
Terrible Railway Accident in Victoria. Two Trains Wrecked. Loss of Life and Injury to Passengers. Another Gross Blunder
MELBOURNE, Wednesday, 11.47 p.m News has just been received by telegram that a passenger train from Ballarat to Melbourne ran into a goods train between…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—The casualties so far at present known of the railway collision in Victoria are—Two engine drivers and one lady passenger killed, and thirty…
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THE Wilcannia Times reports that on Thursday week the body of a man named George Barrass was found drunk in Bunker Creek, near the Tarella run homestead. The…
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A NASTY accident happened to Mr. R. Swan, on Thursday, on the show ground. He was riding the horse Thorn in the jumping contest, when the animal fell, and Mr…
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GOULBURN, Monday.—Two children, named North, aged nine and eleven years respectively, fell into the river at Goulburn yesterday and were drowned…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—The survivors of the late railway accident near Little River are progressing favourably…
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THE Walcha correspondent of the Uralla Times reports that a distressing accident, having a fatal [?] rmination, occurred on Wednesday, March 26, to a man named Thomas…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Chas. Atkinson, a porter at Macdonaldtown station, wan knocked down by a passing goods train and frightfully mangled…
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THE Maldon correspondent of the Melbourne Argus reports that on Saturday night a fatal mining accident occurred in the German Tribute claim, by which a young…
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On Tuesday morning last the district coroner held an inquest at Princes End, on the body of Godfrey Duffill, of that place. It appeared that on the previous…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Mr. Long, the well known chemist, was accidentally poisoned last night. He lies in the Melbourne Hospital in a critical condition…
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BRISBANE, Saturday.—The A.S.N. Company's steamer Currajong, which left Brisbane at noon on Monday for Sydney, returned to port at 2 o'clock yesterday morning working only one engine…
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BRISBANE, Saturday.—Mr. Abell, a clerk in the office of the Commissioner of Police, was drowned while sailing with three others in a boat off the North Quay…
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A VERY serious accident occurred to Cobb and Co.'s Deliniquin and Moulamein coach on Saturday Morning, but was fortunately net attended by any fatal results. The coach, which was drawn by four horses,…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The body of Peter Davis, mate of the barque Prospector, has been found floating in the harbour…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A railway collision in Victoria between heavily-ladon passenger trains was averted on Monday by only a few yards…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Theodore Le Barbe, cook on the Vernon, was attempting to enter a train in motion yesterday, when he fell between the carriage and platform,…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday,—During, the Cup race, at the sheds Martini-Heary and Morpeth collided and fell. Poter, who rode the former, and Hales the latter, also…
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SYDNEY, Friday—The body of Clarence Cadcroft, a clerk in the Lands Titles Office has been found drowned in South Creek, near the Viaduct, Penrith…
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