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473 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 24
In the case of the artilleryman, Rogers, who died in the Infirmary, as reported yesterday, from injuries received at an hotel in Sussex-street, the jury, at the inquest, to-day, returned a verdict to the effect…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A FEARFUL accident happened at Echuca on Monday, 16th, April, at the new bridge now in course of erection over the river Murray. To lift the massive sections of the cylinders, and place them in position, a scaffolding had been…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SHORTLY after midnight on March 25, a sad accident occurred to the Flying Scotchman, as the train is called, which left Edinburgh between 10 and 11 o'clock, for Newcastle and London. It had about sixty passengers, mostly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A young man named John Jeffrey, well known in Sandhurst and Eaglehawk, has died under circumstance of a somewhat peculiar character. It appears (says the BENDIGO ADVERTISER) that on Friday, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A man named James Cameron died at the Infirmary yesterday. It appears that Cameron, who was a fireman employed on the Goolwa, met with an accident to his leg while the steamer was towing a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following statement of an accident at sea was telegraphed from Wellington, N. Z., on Monday : The skip Bra Ledi, from London, ran in without a pilot during a heavy gale last night. She encountered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A telegram from Dunedin gives the following particulars of the railway accident on the main line, on the 13th instant:—Early on Saturday afternoon, a Government ballast engine was harnessed to about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A strange accident occurred on the railway line here to-day. A team of three horses and a dray were being driven over the railway line at the Wolf-street crossing, when suddenly two engines,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Friday last a young man named John Kelly, a miner at Little River, who had been for some time subject to fits, was found by his brother lying in the fire at the residence of their mother, and it is supposed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The coroner's jury, in the case of the terrible American railway disaster by the breaking of the bridge at Ashtabula, by which 170 persons were either crushed, burnt, or frozen to death, returned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shortly after midnight, on March 25, a sad accident occurred to the Flying Scotchman, as the train is called, which left Edinburgh between 10 and 11 o'clock, for Newcastle and London. It had about sixty passengers, mostly…
Continued on Trove, page 698 →On Monday evening last, says the MURRURUNDI TIMES, about 9 o'clock p.m., the contractor's train, laden with sleepers and other material for the extension of the line, had ascended the Range as far as the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following particulars of the sad death by drowning of Mr. Allan Baillie, of Levuka, are reported:—Mr. Baillie recently purchased a small schooner—the Beatrice—and left Levuka for Mokogai…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The City Coroner held an inquest yesterday on the body of Jane Taafe, who was found drowned in a cask of water at her residence in Kent-street Eleanor Duberly deposed that the deceased Jane…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The coroner's jury, in the case of the terrible American railway disaster by the breaking of the bridge at Ashtabula, by which 170 persons were either crushed, burnt, or frozen to death, returned…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →On Thursday last an accident which terminated fatally, occurred to a man named John Van Palt, while engaged with other men in sinking a tank at Cornella station. Deceased was working with a pick…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A female named Christina Houghton, who attempted to commit suicide by drowning on Sunday, was brought up at the Central Police Office yesterday, and committed for trial at the next Quarter Sessions…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As the Coonamble mail coach, says the WESTERN POST, was proceeding towards Mudgee on last Saturday night, about nine o'clock, and when near Hedger's, near Breelong, one of the wheels ran over a stump,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday morning an accident happened at the North Old Chum Company's claim, on the Ironbark line of reef, resulting in the instantaneous death of one man and the injury of another. The two men,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A collision between two passenger trains on the Victorian Railway line, near Spencer-street, occurred yesterday afternoon (says the Melbourne Ace of Tuesday). The half-past 4 p.m. train for Essendon had…
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