Serious Accident Averted
A serious railway accident was prevented early on Tuesday morning at bathurst, when it was discovered that a spring of the vestibule sleeping car…
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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents
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A serious railway accident was prevented early on Tuesday morning at bathurst, when it was discovered that a spring of the vestibule sleeping car…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Owing to the wrong signal having been given, and the shunting engine crossing up to tho neck of the line a goods train collided with the latter at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victor Shutter, proprietor of the Quirindi musical establishment and agent for Paling,was killed on Gaspard-road on Thursday night. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At Adelaide a serious accident occurred a street crossing on the Bowen North Railway line on Tuesday night. A buggy occupied by Francis Naylor,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →While engaged in a game of football at Morgriguy on Sunday, Mr. Keir sustained a treble fracture to one of his legs. De was dodging from a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →James Pittman, a carpeuter, working on the Government tramway sheds at Broken Hill, was run over by a carriage. After effecting repairs to a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →If a lamp is upset and the burning oil runs over, do not throw water on it, but throw flour, earth, sand or ashes, and fling it first on the foremost flames…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Robert Moore, an aged man, while engaged at clearing for Ryan Bros, Goolma, met with a serious accident last Tuesday evening. It appears that he…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A shocking accident occurred, near Glen Innes, a day or two ago, whereby a little girl named Show, aged four, lost her life after intense…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →It was the time of the great blizzard of 1891, Just below Camborne, on the G.W.R., is a lofty viaduet, at that time a wooden structure, but lately rebuilt of stone…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →While playing football at Geurie last Saturday, J. Smith received a nasty knock. He was carried off the ground in an unconscious condition,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Monday evening Messrs. T. Mallay aud W. White, two of the local railway employees, met with injuries under rather peculiar circumstances. It…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Many mothers have known the terror of "something happening," and the frantic search for a doctor. He mat come in time to save, life, but not soon…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A disastrous head on collision was narrowly averted at Come on Saturday night, by the presence of mind of the officer in charge of that station…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The body of James Gleeson, a very old resident of the Inverell district, and one of the earliest farmers in the Dog Trap portion of the district, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →John Lee, a timber lumper, met with a shocking death on Wednesday morning. He was unloading timber from the [?] Casino in Melbourne, when…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Near the Shire Hall, on Wednesday night, Mr. T. Green, of Cobra- street, was found lying in a pool of blood, having evidently fallen and struck his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. T. E. Perry met with an accident whilst at polo practise on Saturday last. The ground was rather slippy, and in turning sharply the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fatal accident occurred at the Great Cobar copper mine about 12 o'clock on Wednesday, when a man named Giames Piter, 23 years…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A visitor to Narromine had a close call last Tuesday evening. He was leaning over the back balcony of the Courthouse Hotel when he…
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