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491 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 25
At half-past 5 o'clock yesterday evening a man named Thomas Watson was brought to the Infirmary in an unconacious condition, suffering from serious injuries. It appears that a few minutes previous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great excitement prevailed is Dunedin last night (reports a local journal of the 22nd May) in consequence of the receipt of brief telegrams, stating that Mr. Charles Nichols, of the firm of Messrs. Dalgety,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ANOTHER fatal accident occurred last night on the railway extension to Tamworth, nestr Currabubula, on Wakeford's contract. Two men were killed. It is stated that the ballast trucks broke away from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR.—In your Issue of the 29th instant I noticed a paragraph about the late accident here, from your own correspondent, who states that the point[?]man was calmly slumbering beside a large fire close to the points. Now Sir I beg to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A few days ago there appeared in our columns an account of the adventurous lite of the lute Mr. [?]all Richardson, who, together with three others, were drowned in Macquarie Harbour on the western…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[?] I [?]ed the Information of a serious railway accident that had happened on the Great Northern ex[?]on above Qu[?] but the particulars th[?] to hand were of a very [?] nature. and nothing definite could be fearned here…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following additional particulars have been received in reference to the fatal railway accident at Quirindi. Three new arrivals seeking work are said to have been on the trucks intending to ride…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TASMANIAN papers give but few further particulars of the boat accident at Macquarie Harbour, of which we have already been informed by telegraph. The Tribune of the 18th instant observes that particulars were…
Continued on Trove, page 775 →IT is our melancholy duty to record another terrible and fatal accident on the railway—this time to one of the employees—which occurred on May 23 about 6 o'clock, The mail train leaving Sydney at 5.25 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 775 →The City Coroner held an inquiry, on Saturday morning, at the Brecknock Arms Hotel, George-street North, respecting the death of George Bourne, fireman, who fell off an engine on the railway, and was killed on the spot. Walter…
Continued on Trove, page 777 →A CORRESPONDENT writes:—As the 20 past 4 mail train from Sydney was approaching the Orange terminus on Tuesday, it ran off the main line on to a siding, the points having been left open by the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →News has just been received in London of the I most startling and terrible naval disaster that [?] I yet occurred. Three of the best of the German ironclads nave come into collision off Folkeston[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DALBY, Monday.—A man named Flannagan has been drowned in the Myall Creek, near this place; it is supposed he was intoxicated at the time. News has been received here from Tombo to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—Robert Smith, breaksman on the Wallaroo and Kadina Railway, was killed yesterday. He was unhitching a horse from a loaded truck when he was run over by a passing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—The overseer at Burrows' Duckenfield Colliery was killed to-day at 1 o'clock, through a quantity of timber falling on him. Mr. M'Kenzie, examiner of coalfields and Mr. Shaw…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Monday evening a man named Henry Martin, in the employ of Mr. Huntly, butcher, of Kent-street, was [?] on board the steamer Western at the [?] Wharf for the purpose of delivering meat, when he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A men named Murdoch was broken to pieces on some shafting at Mort's Dock and Engineering Association Works yesterday morning. It appears the men were engaged on a very heavy piece of forging…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT was reported in Quirindi some time before midnight of Tuesday (says the [?]Times) that an accident had taken place at the extreme limit of the present line of rails, some few miles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WITH reference to the terrible accident on the works of the Great Northern Railway extension the Murrurundi, Times of Saturday furnishes particulars. It was reported in Quirindi soma time before midnight…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A terrible and fatal accident on the railway occurred on the 23rd of May, about 6 p.m. The mail train leaving Sydney at 5.25 p.m. is drawn by two engines, and on the night in question the one attached to the…
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