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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1884

14 stories in Riverina's papers

Collision in the English Channel. London, January 28

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 31 January 1884 · page 2

The survivors of the ship Simla, which sauk in the English Channel on Friday evening, in consequence of a collision with the ship City of Lucknow,…

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Sad Case of Drowning. Coronial Inquiry

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 12 February 1884 · page 2

YESTERDAY a fine boy, fifteen years of age, son of Mr. Collins, butcher of Gurwood-street, met with his death by drowning. The particulars of the case will be found in…

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Frightful Coach Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 1 March 1884 · page 2

A FRIGHTFUL accident (says the Herald) happened three miles from Queanbeyan on Tuesday afternoon. The Cooma mail was approaching Queanbeyan, with ten adult…

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A Wedding Party Drowned

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 27 March 1884 · page 4

A Vienna telegram states that on February 9 a wedding party proceeded in seven carriages from Domrad to Czigandrad (in Hungary), where they were to fetch the bride…

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Terrible Railway Accident. Loss of Two Lives. (Thursday's Echo.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 5 April 1884 · page 2

A SERIOUS accident occurred this evening to the passenger train from Ballarat and Geelong for Melbourne, between the Little River and the Werribee stations. The train ran…

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Serious Railway Accident. Sydney, Wednesday 9.30 p.m

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 26 April 1884 · page 2

A railway accident occurred this evening at the Redfern railway station. As stated the accident occurred through an incoming train running with great speed into the…

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The Recent Railway Accident at Redfern

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 29 April 1884 · page 3

THE following additional particulars have been published in connection with the accident at Redfern on Friday, an outline of which appeared in our Saturday's issue:—…

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Serious Railway Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 14 May 1884 · page 4

WE have to record another painful railway accident, which took place on the line on Monday morning. While a water train was coming in the direction of Cootamundra…

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Appalling Shipwreck on the Coast of Nova Scotia.—124 Persons Drowned

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 21 May 1884 · page 1

HALIFAX, N. S., April 5.—A steamship disaster, which took place on Thursday night at the very entrance to Halifax Harbour, has been paralleled iu horror only…

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Frightful Railway Accident in Spain Sixty Lives Lost

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 12 June 1884 · page 4

A horrible railway disaster took place near Ciudad Real on April 26. The scene of the accident was on the line to Portugal, the Ciudad Heal and Badajos Railway, between…

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Railway Accident in Russia

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 10 July 1884 · page 2

A SERIOUS railway accident was caused on the Moscow railway on 26th May owing to the wilful and malicious displacement of the rails. The accident…

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Intercolonial Telegrams. Collision at Sea and Loss of Life. Brisbane, July 20

The Germanton Times and Tumbarumba Advocate · Friday 25 July 1884 · page 2

The Vanguard, barque, Captain Shaw, from London to Brisbane, arrived. yesterday, mid reports having run into the Farningham, barque, from Dunedin to…

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Fatal Railway Accident in America. New York, July 20

The Germanton Times and Tumbarumba Advocate · Friday 25 July 1884 · page 2

A railway accident, involving great loss of life; occurred to-day in the State of Ohio. A passenger train left the rails and fell over an embankment into a river…

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Dreadful Boiler Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 21 August 1884 · page 4

As a mineral train was shunting out of Ballock station, on the North British Railway, on July 4, the boiler of the engine burst, with disastrous results. One side of the station…

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