Railway Accident. Narrow Escape of the Paper Express. A Catastrophe Averted
A REMARKABLE narrow escape of what might have been a terrible railway disaster happened to the Paper Express train between Bowral and Burradoo…
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Accidents, 1891
66 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 2 of 4
Serious Vehicle Accident at Moss Vale
ON Monday last a serious accident betel Miss Hargreaves and Miss Tarrant, the sister-inlaw and daughter of Dr. Herman Tarrant, M.L.C. While they were driving to Sutton…
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A VERY painful accident happened to a lad named George Cupitt, 15 years of age, on Thursday morning. He was riding to Robertson, when his horse fell, breaking the…
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A VERY painful and serious accident happened at Kangaloon on Tuesday last to a man named John, Backman, a native of Finland, Backman, who is in the employ of Mr. Alexander Bruce was engaged…
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THE secretary of the above announces that he will be in attendance at the committee room at the School of Arts, on Wednesday evenings from 7.30 to 9 o'clock…
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AGNES LOUISA MARTIN, the young woman who, on Friday night last, lost both his legs on the railway near Sydney through being run over by a train, is still alive, and…
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THE town was thrown into quite a state of excitement on Wednesday morning as the news of three or four different accidents, occurring at different hours, got bruited about, supplemented by a thrilling…
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A SPECIAL meeting of the members of the Berri[?]na District Workman's Accident Relief and Endowment Fund was held in the committed room of the Bowral School of…
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A melancholy case of drowning occurred at Colo Vale on Monday afternoon last, whereby, a little boy named Alexander Stephen Cobbitt, son of Mr. Stephen…
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London, June 15.—A barge containing 500 Russian convicts who were on their way to Siberia sank in the river Volga, at Nijni Novgorod. Many wore drowned…
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Miss TOBIN, daughter of Mr. John Tobin of Sofala, 21 years of age, while crossing the river three miles above Sofala on horseback on Monday morning, was…
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RAIN has been falling heavily for the last 86 hours. The creeks and rivers are ranning bankers, and there is every probability of floods unless the weather soon clears…
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Information was conveyed to the Albury police on Monday night that a man with a horse and buggy had been swept down the river. Investigations showed that shortly…
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On Monday an enquiry was held by the coroner at Cooma into the death of a man named Thomas Lachlan, whose body was found in Rosebrook Padlock, seven miles…
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The body of John Brooks, who was drowned at the Kingsdale crossing on Monday, 22nd instant, was recovered on Sunday afternoon within a stone's-throw of the…
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At 2 o'clock yesterday the flood stood at about 35ft. above summer level; from that time till 9 o'clock the water rose rapidly, At night numbers of people, whose houses…
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The flood in the Murrumbidgee River at Gandagai on Sunday reached 34ft 6in., or within 2ft. of the flood of 1852, which washel away the old township. A…
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WE regret to state that the recent blasting accident at the Government Quarries, whereby a man named John Kelleher was so severely injured that he had to be taken to Sydney, is…
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A MELANCHOLY tale has to be told of the boisterous weather which existed on Sunday morning last, and which we regret to say has brought sorrow and bereavement to the homo of a well-known and well,…
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AN accident attended by fatal results occurred at Mittagong yesterday, and following so closely on the terrible accident which occurred on Sunday last has caused great…
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