Serious Blasting Accident. LITHGOW
A serious accident occurred on Saturday last on Messrs. Fishburn and Morton's contract on the Mudgee railway. Two men named M'Leod and M'Carthy were engaged in blasting, and grot…
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Horrible Accident[?]on the Thames,n.z. an Infant Roasted. the Parents Severely Burned. [By Cable.] Otago
A horrible accident occurred yesterday on the Thames, A man was boiling tar in the kitchen of his house, and left the pot on the fire while he went out. Before be returned the tar boiled over, burst…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Telegraphic News. [By Submarine Cable.] Serious Collision in the English Channel. Twenty Lives Lost. London, August 27
Intelligence has been received, of two collision which have occurred in the English Channel. Full details are not yet to hand, but it is known that the steamer Woodburn, of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Blasting Accident on the Mud Gee Railway. [By Telegraph.] Lithgow
A serious accident happened on Saturday last, on Messrs Fishburn and Morton's contract on the Mudgee railway. Two men, named M'Leod and M'Carthy, were engaged blasting, and having the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Terrible Accident at Wingham. [By Telegraph.] Wingham
A frightful accident occurred yesterday to one of the oldest and most respected residents of the district, Mr Thomas Gibson, sen., with his wife and grandchildren. He was retarding from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Frightful Accident at Newcastle. [By Telegraph.] Newcastle
A miner named Nugent died a horrible death in the Glebe pit on Saturday. He was firing a blast in the coal when the powder ignited, and he was blown to atoms. He had been only three weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Serious Railway Collision in Victoria. 21 Peesons Injured. Melbourne, Wednesday, 1 a.m
News bas just been received of a serious railway accident at Newmarket. It appears the 9.45 p.m. passenger train from Melbourne was nearing Newmarket Station, when the pointsman, through…
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A railway accident occurred on the Newmarket Essendon line last night. The train left Spencer-street at 9.45 p.m., and consisted of two ordinary and one American carriages, with 30…
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Last bight Thomas M'Guinness, residing at the corner of Castlereagh and Market streets, while crossing Pitt-street, was knocked down by a cab. He was taken to the hospital, where it was ascertained…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Accident in Victoria. (By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne
A railway accident occurred this evening on the Essendon line. A train, containing about 30 passengers, was shunted by mistake near the Newmarket station, on to the line on which some cattle trucks were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Frightful Accident at the Waterworks. [By Telegraph.] Parramatta
An inquest was held to-day at Liverpool by Mr J, E. Bowden, Districts Coroner, on the body of Alfred Murpby, who was blown up by an unexpected explosion of a blast at the waterworks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Railway Accident in Victoria. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne
A number of reports have been received respecting the railway collision last night; they show that the signalman at Newmarket junction was most to blame, He mistook the passenger train for a cattle train, and…
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The water police report that a skiff dingy, about 16 feet long, painted white outside with barred bottom, and yellow inside with blue bottom boards was picked up on Tuesday evening by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Accident in Victoria. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
The official reports of the railway accident at Newmarket show that it was caused by the signalman Croaker mistaking the passenger train for the pilot engine, and turning on the racecourse siding,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Serious Railway Collision. 20 Persons Hurt. [By Electric Telegraph.] Melbourne
A RAILWAY accident occurred on the NewmarketEssendon line last night. The train left Spencer-street at 9.45 p.m., and consisted of two ordinary and one American carriages, with 30…
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Yesterday a little boy, named Wm. Hardacre, while playing on one of the bridges of the Illawarra branch line, slipped and fell to the ground below, a distance of 30ft. When picked up he was…
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ON Wednesday evening last, a painful—and which might have proved fatal—accident occured at Alderman Cross' saw mills, Cross Roads. It appears that a young man named…
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A railway accident occurred this evening on the Essendon line. A train, containing about 30 passengers, was shunted by mistake near the Newmarket station, on to the line on which some cattle trucks were…
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The dead body of a man, whose name is unknown, was found in the Wollondilly River yesterday…
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Yesterday morning at 6.30 a.m., a man named Charles Dwyer was found dead in. a stable in Druitt-street, belonging to Mr. Charles Aarons. The deceased was lying on the floor, his head being close to…
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