Terrible Railway Accidents in Texas
LONDON, June 26.—Two railway accidents occurred in South Texas. Thirty-one persons were killed…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1880
215 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 11
The Kelly Gang. the Attempt to Wreck the Train
THE place where the rails were pulled up is exactly half a mile beyond the station, and not a mile and a half as at first reported. It was chosen with diabolical…
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ACOUT eleven o'clock, yesterday forenoon, a collision between two trains of coal waggons counected with the Borehole and Burwood Pits, occurred near the…
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WE have received from Mrs. Margaret Cavander, a letter explaining at considerable length the circumstances connected with the collision of coal trucks that…
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LONDON, July 5.—The Board of Trade inquiry into the causes of the collapse of the Tay railway bridge in December last is now completed. The report deals…
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YESTERDAY at the Police Court, at 11 a.m., the adjourned application of John Griffiths for a renewal of his colonial wine license for a house situated off the Lake…
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AN appalling calamity happened on the South Paciffc Coast Railroad on Sunday afternoon, May 23, by which sixteen persons were killed and forty…
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THE contractors are making good headway from Tamworth. The metals are laid for upwards of four miles, and the big engine is continually shrieking through…
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COPLLAND, Friday.—The new bridge over the Barrington liver was opened yesterday…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The railway station and all the works at Dubbo will be finished by the end of the month…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Government has reserved one road, part of allotment nine, section ton, at the Copoland…
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ON Thursday, July 15, about 300 people collected at the Bridge, to witness the opening ceremony. Mr. Copeland, member for the district,…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Turkiston, a brick-maker, has obtained a verdict for £150 in an action arising out of the accident on the Parramatta railway…
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THE schoolmaster at Glenrowan, Mr. Curnow, who was the means of preventing the wreck of the pilot-engine, and probably the train conveying the police to…
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THE Government Gasette of the 27th July, contains a schedule of roads confirmed, amongst others, in the following localities: viz., Gulgond, Muswellbrook,…
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SIR,—The individual who presides over the destinies of the Wickham Road is evidently a genius of a superior order. Whether he has lately visited the Zig Zag,…
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THE works on the extension of the South-western railway contract No. 1, Narandera to Hay, have been let to Mr. George Blunt for the sum of £321,942 8s 4d…
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ANVIL CREEK, Monday.—Another attempt has been made to upset the train, at a cutting near Greta station. A crowbar and lover wore placed across the line…
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A PASSENGER by yesterday morning's omnibus (No. 13) from Wallsend to Newcastle castle (Mr. Alderman Shaw, of Wallsend), draws attention to a very narrow escape…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence Accident on Minmi Road. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—In reading the Advocate, on Friday morning, I noticed the accident to the Minmi 'bus. It states there that the horses shied at some cattle lying on the…
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