District News. Islington. ACCIDENT
A RATHER painful accident occurred yesterday afternoon in the Islington Reserve to a young son of Mr. B. Watt. The young fellow was standing on a seat holding on…
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Accidents, 1892
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Railway Accident. Knocked Off His Engine. SYDNEY
An engine-driver named Thomas Smith, 39, a resident of Great Buckingham-street, Redfern, met with an accident yesterday morning, which will probably result in his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collision in the Harbour
At an early hour yesterday morning the Government steamer Orestes, when proceeding along the harbour, collided with the barque Cashmere, which was lying at [?]ch r[?]in the stream, with the result…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tighe's Hill. Gun Accident
On Saturday last a man named James Reed, of Tighe's Hill, and another men went to Hexham Swamps for the purpose of shooting wild ducks. They stayed there a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Railway Accident. Sells' Circus Train Smashed. Alarming Rumours Regarding Escaped Lions and Tigers. One Man Killed and Two Seriously Injured. The Company Falfils its Engagement at Armidale
A TREMENDOUS amount of excitement was caused in the whole of the northern districts yesterday, by a rumour to the effect that a catastrophe had occurred to a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another Accident
Another accident, though fortunately not one of a serious character, occurred at Toowong, a small platform between Ravensworth and Muswellbrook, yesterday. A…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian News. New South Wales. Bridge Accident
AN accident occurred at Wentworth Bridge. A three-ton cylinder was being hoisted to the top of the stags to place it in its position on the top of the others in the water, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dreadful Railway Accident. Carriages Leave the Rails at Tarana. Nine Persons Killed and Fifteen Injured. Death, Mutilation, and Consternation. SYDNEY
RAILWAY accidents, like other misfortunes and sorrows, "come not in single spies, but in battalions." The truth of this has been ofttimes proved, and why it is so must be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Scene of the Accident
The scene of the accident is three miles this side of Tarana, at a portion of the line where there is a down grade for some miles of 1 in 150. The line here winds about…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Falls of Garry in Collision
The barque Falls of Garry, a vessel well-known in the Australian trade, which arrived at Queenstown on March 18 from San Francisco, and sailed thence on March 25 for Havre, ran into the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disastrous Fire at a Philadelphia Theatre. Six Performers Killed and Seventy Persons Injured
NEW YORK, Thursday—Intelligence of a most appalling catastrophe has reached here from Philadelphia. During the progress of a performance at the Central Theatre of that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident at Maitland. Knocked Down by a Cow. MAITLAND
MR. WILSON, representing the Commissioners for the Chicago Exhibition, and canvassing for exhibits at the Maitland Show, had a narrow escape from a serious injury…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Accident to Sells' Circus Train. Evidence at the Inquest
IN our yesterday's issue we stated that the driver and fireman of the No. 4 division of Sells' circus train had boon committed for trial in connection with the accident on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Tarana Accident Commencement of the Inquest. the Bodies Terribly Mangled. a Ghastly Spectacle. SYDNEY
THE excitement in connection with the Tarana railway accident has to a great extent subsided, but much eagerness is being exhibited to obtain the latest and fullest…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Burning of a Philadelphia Theatre. Sixty Persons Severely Injured
NEW YORK, Thursday.—Further particulars from Philadelphia state that 60 persons were badly injured in the terrific crush to escape from the burning theatre or…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Tarana Accident Resumption of the Inquest. The Last Body Identified. SYDNEY
LAST night Mr. Lynch, brother of the woman who was thought to be Mrs. M'Donagh, arrived at Bathurst from Wellington. He proceeded, in company with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident to a Sailor
YESTERDAY afternoon an English sailor, aged 22, named E. Williamson, while working on board the ship Verbens, discharging ballast, met with what might have been a very…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gun Fatality at Tomago Verdict of Accidental Death
AN inquest touching the death of a young man named Robert Hopple-white, who met his death by being accidentally shot on Sunday evening,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Cambrian Chieftain in Collision
The barque Cambrian Chieftain, which reached Adelaide on Wednesday from Hamburg, was collision with a trawling smack at the early part of the voyage. The captain's report says:—"At 3 on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Coach Accident at Hinton. the Mail Coach Horses Bolt Into the River. a Woman and Child Drowned. MORPETH
A SAD mail accident occurred to-night at 9.30 o'clock. The horses in the mail coach from Dungog to Morpeth bolted when near Hinton. The driver was thrown off his box,…
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