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A Shocking accident happened to-day (Tuesday) according to a telegram in the Argus, on the Victorian Railway. A shunter named William M'Carthy was run over by the pilot engine, near the Echuca goods…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A SHOCKING accident happened Wednesday on the Victorian railway. A shunter named William M'Carthy was run over by the pilot-engine, near the Echuca goods sheds, and both his legs were so fearfully mangled that they had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An accident occurred at Ashtabula, Ohio, on the Lake Shore Railroad, by which seven coaches and all the baggage and express cars were burned, and about one out of every five persons killed. The…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Copenhagen, January 3. —The first railway accident in Denmark involving loss of life, occurred between Horsens and Aarhuus A train conveying 100 labourers, te clear awaya snow blockade, ran off…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →On Saturday weak (as we learn from the Bembala Herald) a sad and fatal accident occurred to a young nun by the Dame of H. Whalan. It appeared that deceased was driving a horse team towards Bombala…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two children, named Henry Flynn, 3½ years, and 5 years, were knocked down and run over by a runaway buggy. It would appear that Dr. Belgrave and his wife were driving in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About 9 o'clock last night, as several boys at Camperdown were skylarking and tripping each other down, one of them, named Charles Getley, aged 17 years, was thrown down on his right arm, and sustained…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Western Examiner reports that a man named Janes Byrne was, on Wednesday, received into the Orange Hospital under the following circumstances:—It appears that about noon on that day the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The City Coroner held an inquest this morning concerning the death of a carpenter named Thomas Chope Baker, who died on the 19th instant from injuries accidentally received through falling from a scaffold on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Monaro Mercury gives the following account of the frightfully shocking accident which recently occurred sear Cooma., brief particulars of which were transmitted by telegraph to this journal:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE accident of a shocking nature which befel an unfortunate lad near Cooma (of which we received information by telegram) is thus detailed by the Monaro Mercury:— Early last Wednesday morning William, the eldest son of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The following casualties were attended to at the Infirmary,to-day:-George Webber,2[?] cut arms, Isasc Benis. 25, scalp wound; John Spollen, 22, cut eye; and Henry Flynn, 22, crushed finger, which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shortly after noon to-day a dreadful accident occurred on board the old coaling the steamship Hankow in Neutral Bay. While some bastkets of coal were being hauled up by a steam…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dr. Poulden, who been for some years resident and practising his profession on the Clarence, came to his death on Saturday evening last by falling into the river at Lawrence It appears that the unfortunate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The city coroner this morning resumed the inquiry at his office concerning the death of Thomas Crowen, alias John Clark, who, on the 22nd instant, died at the Infirmary from the effects of injuries accidentally…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A sad case of drowning is reported by the Wammerawa correspondent of the Dubbo Dispatch. The deceased was a lad of 17 or 18 years of age, named W. Johnston, employed in conveying the mails between…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About 8 o'clock yesterday morning, a stevedore's foreman, named James Sawer; aged 32 years, fell down the hold of the ship Cyclone, and sustained serious injuries to his back and limbs. It appears that Sawer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disasters at sea by collision with icebergs are rarely chronicled, at the vessel either founders through the collision, or is enabled to get clear before the berg fairly overhears the ship. Such is surmised to have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We are informed that the following are the correct particulars of the cab accident, which occurred on Monday afternoon in King street. A gentleman and a lady with two children were taken in a cab to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An accident almost as fatal in its result as that of Abbot's Ripton, on the same line, in the early part of this year, occurred at the Arlesey siding station, four miles north of Hitchen, on the Great Northern Railway, on the…
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