Tasmania. Launceston, Thursday. The Railway Accident
At the railway accident in Tasmania 80 persons were seriously injured. Rogers, the stoker, has died. The Premier is uninjured…
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Accidents, 1886
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Serious Accident
The Hen. John Sutherland, M.L.A., has been thrown from his buggy, and now confined to his bed, preventing his attending the Assembly…
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AN inquest was held in the Soudan Hotel on Saturday morning on the body of John Andrew Tait, lately second officer of the ship Black Adder,…
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During the quarter ending June 30 last, 29 mining accidents occurred. The list includes 14 men killed and 15 injured. During the half-year 51 accidents have…
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HOBART, Friday.—The inquest on the body of Bradshaw, the engine-driver who was killed in connection with the recent railway accident on the Fingal line, was concluded…
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The steamer Taldora collided with the steamer Derwent in Keppel Bay. The former was greatly injured, but the collision did not affect the safety of either…
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A sailor named Glover, of the ship Knight of St. Michael, has been drowned in the harbour…
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ON Sunday forenoon a man named John Kilbride was found drowned in the Anvil Creek, at the rear of the English Church. An inquest was held on Monday by the…
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A collision has taken place at the Newtown railway station. A goods train from Picton ran into a train of empty trucks. Fifteen trucks were smashed to…
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Richard Smith, porter, at the Homebush Railway Station, got a leg jammed between the buffers of the trucks, and the limb has since been amputated…
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Patrick Cronin, block signal boy, has been run over by a train and killed…
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YESTERDAY morning, about 7 o'clock, it was reported to Constable Meara, stationed at Bullock Island, that the body of a man was floating under the dyke, between Nos. 9 ane…
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A son of Captain Bridges, clerk of Petty Sessions, Mossvale, has been killed by the falling of a tree…
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Stone, the jockey injured at the Hawkesbury races, has been awarded by the A.J.C. Club £25…
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AT a few minutes past 12 o'clock yesterday, great excitement was occasioned at the Dyke by a sad and fatal accident to a man about 20 years of age, named David Boyd,…
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IT will be remembered when this matter was first brought up in the House by Mr. Abigail, that the Minister of Mines, Mr. Fletcher, gave it as his opinion that there…
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A man, name unknown, 60 to 70 years old, has been found drowned in the harbour. A steerage ticket of the Newcastle Company was found on him…
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The steamer Prince of Wales, belonging to Mr. Waterhouse, whilst towing the ship Peterborough, was run down by a ship, and sank at the Heads. The…
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A FATAL accident of a most melancholy nature occurred at Mount Corrimal, or Brooker's Nose, on Wednesday, the vic[?] being Mr. Lachlan M'Kinnon, a son of Mr…
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A CORRESPONDENT thus refers to the accident which disabled Spofforth on the first day of the match between the Australian Eleven and the Gentlemen…
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