The Aberdeen Fatality
On Tuesday afternoon the inquest on the bodies of the two men, James White and Olaf Nielson, who were killet on board the steamer Aberdeen, on May 10, was resumed and concluded before the City…
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Accidents at Lithgow. LITHGOW
Mr. Y. H. Brown, an old resident at the clarence Tannal, died this week from horse [?] Mr. [?]…
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A man named John M'Ardle, a cab owner, about 45 years of age, who had lately been working at Lane Cove, came to the hospital this morning complaining of a pain in his side. He states that when stepping This morning his Honor Mr. District Court Judge Dowling had before him the action of Farleigh and Nettheim v. Crombie. The plaintiffs, the well-known leather and grindery merchants, sued the…
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An inquest is now being held on the body of a sailmaker named John Anderson, of the barque Grandee, who had been missing since Sunday last. His body was recovered this morning by…
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A fatal railway accident occurred near Lithgow on Wednesday night to the livo stock train, from Dabbo to Sydney, doe at Lithgow at 10 o'clock.. It had left Lithgow Station at the usual time, and…
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A boy, 6 years of age, eon of a hotelkeeper named Bearle, was missed from home on Thursday. The child was found drowned in the river yesterday alongside Messrs. Kipper and See's…
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A FATAL railway accident occurred on Wednesday night, between the Bottom Points of Lithgow Zig Zag, and Eskbank railway station; resulting in the death of a young…
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A SERIOUS railway accident happened at Parramatta on Saturday night, fortunately without loss of life. It is alleged that the mishap arose from the wanton neglect of the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Zig Zag Accident. to the Editor of the Nepean Times
SIR,âFrom my small stock of knowledge in connection with railway matters, I gather that the staff system of running trains, if worked properly could never admit of such…
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AT a quarter past 10 o'clock on Wednesday night a serious railway accident, reaulating in the death of a fireman, the injury of another, and the destruction of several goods trucks loads with live…
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A shocking accident occurred at the Flinders-street station last night. Arthur Creswell, 18 years of age, on of a solictor, challenged a companion to fight on the Hawthorn piatform. The…
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This morning a trimmer, on board the steamer Wentworth, while working in the stoke-hole of that vessel, and in the act of shovelling coal, met with a serious accident by reason of one of the steam-pipes…
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Henry Port, aged 38, an engineer of the steamer Cheviot, which arrived in his port yesterday, while crossing George-street, was knocked down by a horse and Tan driven by a Chinaman. One of the shatts…
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At a quarter past 10 o'clock on Wednesday night a serious railway accident, resulting in the death of a fireman, the injury of another, and the destruction of several goods trucks loaded with live stock, occurred…
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A sad accident happened at the Haw[?] railway elation tins afternoon, by which Arthur Creswell, aged 17, son of a solicitor, was killed. It appears Creswell, who was on the platform…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Railway Accident Near Lithgow. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Lithgow
A collision, attended with fatal consequences, occurred on Wednesday last, about 10 p.m., within two miles of the Esk Bank Railway Station, and about one mile from the bottom point of the Zigzag. It appears from the evidence…
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When the inquest was resumed the following evidence was taken:— Robert Moore deposed: I am a pointsman, stationed at the bottom points of the Zigzag; I was on duty there on…
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Yesterday afternoon the boiler of the engine attached to a mixed train burst with a loud explosion as the train was surmounting the Warrenheif band, about two miles from ballarat. The…
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An accident, which may be attended with fatal results, occurred in King-street, near George-street, this morning. It appears that a runaway house with buggy attached ran into the footpath and knocked…
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Between 9 and 10 o'clock on Monday morning some little excitement was occasioned at the junction of the Newtown-road and George-street, consequent upon a collision between the Marrickville tram and a…
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