Fatal Railway Collision at Newtown
THE most serfous railway collision that has latele happened on our railways, occurred yesterday morning, at 9 o'clock, at the Newtown Railway Station. The passenger train,…
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Accidents, 1868
7 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers
A Thrilling Recital. Two Children Bitten by a Rattlesnake and a Third Drowned
NEVER in our experience as journalists has it been our duty to chronicle an occurrence more horrid in its details than the one we are about to relate. The sad affair that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Drowning of the Bishop of Grafton and Armidale
The following account of the lamentable occurrence was given at the inquest by the survivor Creighton, who deposed that he was a labourer in the employment of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Boat Accidents
A melancholy boat accident occurred on the Clyde, near Millport, on Tuesday evening, July 28. It appears that in the afternoon Colonel Thomas Morgan and Mr. Alexander Tweenie hired a small…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident to the Mail Steamer Atrato
The royal mail steamship Atrato became disabled at sea, at 5.30 p.m., on August 5. When about two hundred miles W.S.W. of the Lizard her mainshaft, port-eccentric, and cross-head of starboard…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Appalling Accident to a Mail Train
IT may be remembered that on August 25th, 1861, a frightful collision took place in the Clayton tunnel, by which twenty-three persons lost their lives, and one hundred and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Abergele Accident
The circumstances of the Abergele accident are still under investigation. The Llanddulas station-master has been acquitted by the magistrates on the charge of…
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