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654 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 33
A sad fatal accident occurred on Monday near Lehman's River. The Darling mailcoach horses bolted, and Mr. Matthew Taylor, cattle manager at Kinchega station, jumped out and received…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fatal mail coach accident occurred between Wentworth and Poonctree on Monday evening, by which Matthew Taylor, manager of the Pamamaroo Station, near Menindle, was kitted. Quite a gloom…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About 10 minutes to 6 o'clock, yesterday evening, Hugh Miller, aged 52, was brought to the Infirmary by Mr. Jas. Cumminga, chief officer of the s.s. Woniora, suffering from severe injuries caused by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It was a sad accident that befel the Roscommon staghounds while lately hunting a red hind specially procured from Yorkshire. The meet took place at Bovie, and the run led in the direction of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, April 17.—A fearful mining accident has occurred at Mons. An explosion of firedamp took place in a coalmine, and before the miners could escape 240 men were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"We regret to learn that Mr. West, Mayor of Five Dock, who was so seriously injured in the late blasting accident at that place, is still very week, and it is feared that he will lose the sight of both his eyes…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following particulars ot a mining accident, which occurred at Charters Towers, on the 19th March, is commented on in the COURIER, showing the danger in using straight ladders in deep shafts:—A…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →POOR Colonel Wyndham's ascent on Saturday evening, February 1, ended in a sad and mournful tragedy. The balloon was inflated early in the afternoon, and as evening closed in vast crowds of people had…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The City Corner this afternoon held an inquest at the Labour in Vain public house, Sussex-street, respecting the death of a man named Robert Smith, a dray proprietor, aged 42 years, whose dead body was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fearful accident has occurred near Tien Tsin, through the capsizing of the Peninsula and Oriental Co.'s old steamer Aden, She was cased as a bulk, and a large quantity of cargo had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The alarm created in the public mind by the frequency of steamboat collisions has been considerably increased by another accident which took place last evening, between two fine steamers owned by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The ketch Ada, bound from Sydney to Caps Hawke, ten days out, lost a man overboard. His name was Victor Zacbrisson, and at the time of the accident, was reefing the mainsail. He…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A melancholy and fatal accident occurred on Sunday evening, in the drowning of a young man named John Sharp, the beat swimmer in the neighbourhood. Deceased swam on horseback at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About 8 o'clock yesterday evening Samuel Allen, aged 24 years, a printer by trade, and a native of England, whilst employed as a labourer at the International Exhibition building, fell off the woodwork of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I happened to be prevent at the Exhibition Building last night, when a dreadful accident took place, resulting in the loss of life; and It struck me, on viewing the locality where the unfortunate man fell, that far too little precaution…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A melancholy fatal accident occurred to Devonshire-street last week, to a much-respected resident of the locality. Mr. Thomas Murphy, a grocer, residing at the corner of Crown and Fitzroy streets, was delivering some goods to his…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The goods train which left Picton at 9 45 p.m. last night, and was due at Sydney at 1.40 a.m. this morning, did not reach Redfern until 8.45 a.m. owing to an accident which occurred near…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following particulars of a melancholy and fatal accident are supplied by a correspondent to the GEELONG ADVERTISER of April 21. It occurred at Naugunia Station, near Corowa to a young girl named…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About a quarter-past 6 o'clock this morning the body of a woman aged about 45 years, and decently clothed, was found floating in the waters of Woollomooloo Bay near the schooner Blackball, and about…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Between 6 and 7 o'clock last evening, an elderly man named Patrick Carlon, a boarding-house keeper in Scott-street, was drowned in the Market Wharf basin. Some lads playing near heard the…
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