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473 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 24
A dreadful accident occurred at Smithfield, yesterday, to a boy tea or twelve years of age, son of Mr. Simpson, storekeeper, at that place The lad was riding a horse about half a mile from his fathers's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A lad named Boland, rider of Latona at the Hawkesbury rases, yesterday, met with an accident whilst competing in a race. He was brought by train to Sydney, and taken to the Infirmary, suffering from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Royal yacht Alberta, with the Queen on board, when crossing from CoweR to Gosport, ran down the yacht Mistletoe, and three persons were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 275 →The dreadful accident on the Southern Railroad of Long Island on July 5, by which seven people were killed and forty-two maimed, continued yesterday to be the principal topic of conversation. In this city the disaster made a…
Continued on Trove, page 278 →A dreadful accident occurred at Smithfield, on Thursday, to a boy ten or twelve years of age, a son of Mrs Simpson, storekeeper, at that place. The lad was riding…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN inquest was held relative to the catastrophe by the collision between the Royal steamer Alberta and the yacht Mistletoe; the jury were unable to agree to a verdict…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An inquest was held on the bodies of the persons drowned in consequence of the collision between the Royal Yacht Alberts and yacht Miseltoe. The jury were unable to agree to a verdict…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquest was held at Hill End on the body of Margaret Knight, who was drowned in the Macquarie on [?]. The HILL END TIMES [?]: It appears from [?] Wednesday morning,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About 10 o'clock yesterday morning, as Mr. Charles York's horse and buggy were standing in George-street, nearly opposite the Christ Church police station, something flightened the horse, and it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ONE of the most distressing accidents which we have been called upon to record for some time (says the GOULBURN CHRONICLE) occurred on last Saturday morning at Mr. C, Gillespie's tannery,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A boy named William John Thomas was run over by a fire engine last night, and rewired severe injuries to his body. He was taken to the Infirmary, and admitted.-A man named William Hall fell down the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A tree blew across the, Totnes and Ashurton Railway on the morning of 9th July, and the first passenger train ran into it, but fortunately no one was hurt. The line had not been given clear by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE WESTERN ADVOCATE of Wednesday last contains the report of an inquest "held by the district coroner, at the house of William George Agland, on the previous Monday, touching the death of an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN accident of a peculiarly painful nature, end[?]ing fatally, occurred at Mr. C Gillespie's leather and tanning manufactory, Goulburn (reports the Argus), on Saturday last. A young man…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—Your report, in this morning's paper of the fire in George-street states truly—that "as the engine was proceeding down Pitt-street, and when opposite the Victoria Theatre, a boy thirteen years of age was run over and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Yesterday (Sunday) morning, at 8 o'clock, a seaman named Andrew Bemfors found the body of a woman Boating in Woolloomooloo Bay, alongside the ketch lno. The body was taken to the dead house,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday evening, at about 6 p.m. say the NEWCASTLE CHRONICLE), an accident occurred near the Newoomen street crossing, to an engine attached to train of coal waggons. It appears the engine,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A child named Richand Pilbeam, aged fire 3 years, was this morning admitted into the Infirmary, suffering severely from burns in the neck and tack received through a boiler everturning in Robin Head-lane.-A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The body of the woman found floating in Woolloonooloo Bay, by a seaman on board the ketch loo,: on Sunday morning, we identified aa being that of one Elizabeth Herbert The Coroner held an inquest, at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AN inquest was held yesterday afternoon, at the Observer Tavern, Lower George-street, touching the death of an old woman named Elizabeth Herbert, lying dead at the deadhouse, Circular Quay…
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