Alarming mining Accident
The Linton correspondent of the Melbourne "Argus" telegraphed on Friday that about 2 o'clock that afternoon the water from the old Pioneer claim broke through into the drive of the Linton-park…
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Terrible Railway Accident in Russia. 180 Lives Lost. St. PETERSBURG. July 14
A terrible railway accident occurred today on the St. Petersburg and Moscow line, which resulted in a fearful loss of life of passengers and officials…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Our Special Telegram. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Fearful Railway Accident in Russia. London, July 14, 6 A.m
A terrible accident has occurred on the Moscow Kursk Railway. 200 persons, comprising passengers and officials, were killed, and the train was completely wrecked…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Serious Coach Accident. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Braidwood
The overloading of a mail coach (a frequent evil here-abouts) has resulted in a serious mishap. The wheel of the Araluen coach broke while the coach was going down the mountain. Seven persons were more or less hurt. Mr. C…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatal Railway Accident. a Woman Killed. Wagga Wagga
An inquest was held this morning on the body of a woman named Emmet, wife of a gardener, resident near the railway station, who was killed by a train passing over her body on Saturday…
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An elderly man named Richard Simmons fell from the Granville railway bridge on to the line early this morning. He was picked up insensible, and conveyed by the police to the hospital…
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Thomas Walker, a shunter, in jumping off an engine last night, had his foot cut off and his body considerably bruised. He has only been four months on the staff…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Colliery Accident. NEWCASTLE
A miner, whose name is not stated, had his head smashed by a fall of coal, causing the brains to protrude, in the Wallsend Colliery to-day. He is in a critical state, but it is thought…
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Mr. Butcher, superintendent of the South Sydney Fire Brigade, No 4, met with an accident on Monday night while hastening to the scene of the Hay-street fire. He was thrown out of a dogcart at the junction of the…
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On Friday last the daughter of Mr. E. Ponlton, residing in Bourte-street, had a rather starting experience of machinery, which Trill probably make her more careful in the future. She was on a visit to…
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An extraordinary accident took place, yesterday, at No, 3, Robertson-place, off Pitt-street, where the acting coroner, Mr. Pinhey, had assembled a jury to view the body of a man named George Irons, on whom…
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Shortly before 8 o'clock last night some considerable alarm and excitement were caused, opposite the City Bank, in Pitt-street, by the collision of two cabs, one No. 135, driven by…
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Inspector Seymour prosecuted a number of persons at the Water Police Court yesterday, for breaches of the by-laws. The Bench was occupied by Mr. Addison, S.M., and the fines inflicted…
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On Sunday Inst week several lads went out shooting at Stony Creek, between Jamberno and Albion Park, and an accident occurred which resulted in the death of one of their number, who…
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ST. PETERSBURG, July 14.—A terrible railway accident occurred to-day on the St. Petersburg and Moscow line, which-resulted in a fearful loss of life of passengers and officials. The train…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Singular Accident. Glen Innes
Mr. W. D. Walker, Government Surveyor, met with a singular accident on Sunday at Boyd-Newtown. He was killing a snake when be slipped over a cutting and broke his leg in two…
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During a heavy gust of wind, yesterday, shortly after 1 o'clock, an iron cylinder in connection with the new bridge being constructed between Balmain and Five Dock, was blown completely out, of its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Accident on Board the Waketipu
Captain Wheeler, of the steamer Wakatipu, reports that while on the voyage from Wellington (New Zealand) to Sydney, at 4.30 a.m. on the 22nd, David Rentoul, second engineer, accidentally fell…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident to an actor
Last night during the greet explosion scene in "Vanity Fair" at the Gaiety Theatre, Mr. Reynolds sustained a painful injury through a mishap in connection with the mechanises. The explosion was not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident on Board a Steamer. BRISBANE
When the steamer Alexandra was a few miles from Cape Moreton yesterday morning, Simon, Clark, and Dunn, three seamen, were aloft furling the fortopsail when the topmast carried…
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