Terrible Accident
FOURTEEN PERSONS KILLED ON AN EXCURSION TRAIN—A SUNDAY SCENE OF GLOOM AND HORROR. Santa Cruz, Cal., May 23, 1880.—The local train…
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Appalling Railway Accident in California
An appalling calamity happened on the South Pacific Coast Railroad on Sunday afternoon, May 23, by which sixteen persons were killed and forty others badly wounded…
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It has frequently happened that serious accidents have occurred in the interior of the colony through the bolting of the horses attached to mail coaches while the driver has been engaged in delivering the mail bags to the postmaster, and…
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The death of a child belonging to Mrs. Wileox, of Mossman's Bay, has been reported to the City Corener this morning. It appears that on Friday last the child was left for a few minutes by its…
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The City Coroner held an inquest, this morning, at the City Arms Hotel, on the body of Stephen Robert Blue, who, whilst in a state of intoxication last Friday night, fell down the stain of his residence…
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John Thomson, master of the barque Trochrague, was charged in the City Court yesterday with failing to render assistance to a vessel at sea after being in collision. Mr. Smyth appeared for the…
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GOULBURN, Wednesday.—Mr. C. Wiseman, of this city, was thrown from his horse on the Taralga-road this morning, and, it is feared, is injured fatally. A buggy has gone out to bring…
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CENTRAL KEMPSEY, Thursday. —A sad case of drowning occurred last evening at Warneton, by which Mrs. James Chapman and her infant were drowned. It appears that she, in…
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PARRAMATTA, Thursday.—As a party of 10 were returning home last evening in a conveyance with two horses, from the Prospect sports, the animals made a bolt when going down Ream's…
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NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.—James Collins, a railway porter at the Newcastle station, whilst shunting some trucks just after noon to-day, incautiously went between the buffers instead of…
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An inquest wan held on the 6th instant on the body of an old man named William Rule, who was killed by being knocked down and kicked by a horse at the Queen's Wharf on the previous Saturday. The…
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HILL END, Saturday.—A serious accident happened at the Patriarch Gold-mining Company's claim to a lad, 10 years of age, named Edwin Goodard, who was in the act of thawing…
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All accident occurred to a young man named George Regan, this morning, at Charles J. [?] coal and wood store, Druitt-street, Regas was employed in the timber cutting room, and was standing…
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Two men were seriously injured on heard the mail ship Hydaspes this morning. A number of men were unshipping cargo, and as a heavy case was being landed on the main deck it fell into the hold…
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ADELAIDE, Saturday.—D.Brown, a teamster, has been admitted into the Port Augusta Hospital, with a compound fracture of the left arm, collar-bone broken in four places, and ear nearly…
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A correspondent informs us that, on Thursday morning, the 8th July, near Cooranbong, on the borders of the Brisbane Water and Newcastle districts, a lamentable accident took place, which has since terminal led fatally, causing…
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NEWCASTLE, Monday.—Henry Roberts, a miner, working at the first shift at the Co-operation Colliery, to killed this morning by a fall of coal. The body was discovered about 6 o'clock…
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NEWCASTLE, Monday.—A well-known and highly-respacted resident of Newcastle, Mr. W. Kerr Lochhead, J.P., had a very narrow escape from being fatally wounded whilst wallaby…
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A correspondent of the [?] Times of Saturday week describes as follows the recent accident near Grahamstown :--" Not the slightest suspicion of mishap was entertained when Cobb and Co.'s…
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