Terrible Railway Accidents
THE catalogue of terrible railway accidents on the London and North-Western Railway, which commenced with the appalling calamity at Abergele, received a sad addition on Saturday evening. The…
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The Accident to Thr Steamer Lady Young
The telegrams yesterday from Port Stephens confirm the news of the previous evening, that the steamer Lady Young had been safely beached in Nelson's Bay. The steamer Helen Macgregor, which…
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THE catalogue of terrible railway accidents on the London and North-Western Railway, which commenced with the appalling calamity at Abergele, received a sad addition on Saturday evening. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Novelist. Some Chapters From the Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn. in Which Sam Meets with a Serious Accident, and Gets Crippled for Life
What morning is this, when Sam, waking from silver dreams to a golden reality, turns over in his bed and looks out of the open glass door; at dog Rover, propped up against the lintel, chopping at the early…
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What morning is this, when Sam, waking from silver dreams to a golden reality, turns over in his bed and looks out of the open gloss door; at dog Rover, propped up against the lintel, chopping at the early…
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The A. S. N. C[?].'s steamer Lady Young left Sydney on Tuesday, 14th instant, at 5 p.m., bound to Brisbane, with cargo and passengers. On Wednesday forenoon the company received intelligence that she had gone on an outlying reef off Morna…
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A terrible accident occurred to the northern bound express train on the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad, about four miles below Memphis, near Nonconnah Creek, at 10 o'clock on the morning of the 11th January, which…
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Memphis, December 23.--One of tho passengers of the Nick Wall gives the following details of the accident to that boat on Sunday night, that resulted in the death of over one hundred passengers. The Nick Wall struck the…
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A RAILWAY collision of a dreadful nature occurred on Monday night, December 12, at the Stairfoot Station, near Barnsley, on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Shortly after 6, a number of…
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ON December 3 an accident of a fatal character took place at the Agnes Main Colliery, belonging to Mr. W. Day. It appears that a man named Henry Fletcher, about thirty years of age, with his hurrier…
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WE regret to record that a melancholy and fatal accident happened in the vicinity of Gundagai on Friday, the 17th ultimo. It appears that the decea[?]ed, William Nugent, a young man somewhat…
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Memphis, December 23.—One of the passengers of the Nick-Wall gives the following details of the accident to that boat on Sunday night, that resulted in the death of over…
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THE Heythrop Hounds met on December 17, at Ey[?]ham Hall, near Oxford, the seat of Mr. J. Mason, and having found, followed their fox to Tar Wood, which is an open cover, both to the Old…
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WE regret to record that a melancholy and fatal accident happened in the vicinity of Gundagai on Friday, the 17th ultimo. It appears that the deceased, William Nugent, a young man somewhat…
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ON Tuesday a telegram arrived at Beechworth stating that an accident had b[?]llen the upcoach at B[?]daginnie, and that Mr. Hoyle, the driver, had been seriously hurt, and some of the passengers…
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ON Tuesday a telagram arrived at Beechworth stating that an acoident had befallen the up'coach at Badaginnie, and that Mr. Hoyle, the driver, had been seriously hurt, and some of the passengers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Californian Mail. Frightful Accident on the Hudson River Railway. (From the New York Herald, February 8.)
AT twenty-four minutes after 10 o'clock on Monday night, February 6, a specia1 freight train, or "wild cat," as such are called in railroad phrase, laden with petroleum oil, in tanks and barrels, passed the station…
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THE death of Mr. W. Moon, late Mayor of Waterloo, toek place yesterday by a most melaucholy accident. The deceased and his son, with Mr. Alfred Davis, of Newtown, and Mr. Yorke, of the Glebe, went out…
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At twenty-four minutes after 10 o'clock on Monday night, February 6, a special freight train, or "wild cat," as such are called in railroad phrase, laden with, petroleum oil, in tanks and barrels, passed the station…
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AN inquest was held this morning by the city coroner at his office, upon the body of Robert Anderson, who fell into the water at the Circular Quay, yesterday forenoon, and was drowned. Robert Ja[?]son, master…
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