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1,266 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 64
OWIMG to the high breeze which sprang up late of Saturday afternoon, an accident befell a small bo[?] which, unfortunately, resulted fatally. Towards dus[?] it appears that several gentlemen were sailing dows…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A railway accident occurred on Friday night near Gladstone. A special train with tracks of wheat drawn by a Yankee engine was coming down Peasant Bridge when the axle of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A boat accident which nearly ended fatally occurred at Brisbane Water yesterday. At noon three navvies, accompanied by a young woman named Healey, went out in a small…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Young Walsh, who was seriously hurt by the recent coach accident, died at 2 o'clock this morning. Mr. Dean is not seriously hurt internally; he has recovered from concussion to the spine, and is doing well. Mr. Dawsen is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ADELAIDE, Sunday.--A railway accident occurred on Friday night near Gladstone, A special train with trucks of wheat drawn by a Yankee engine was coming down Peasant Bridge when the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →QUEANBEYAN, Saturday.--Young Walsh died at 2 o'clock this morning. Lean, who is not seriously internally hurt, has recovered from concussion of the spine and is doing well. Dawson is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another accident occurred this morning to a train on the Nairne railway. The train went to Aldgate on Sunday night, when the brake was injured. Instead of the brake being removed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An accident occurred on the South-Western Railway at Toowoomba last night. While the evening train was leaving for Brisbane, the last carriage and the brake van left the line at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. W.S. Gallagher, the Glen Innes agent for Cobb and Co., was thrown from his horse, yesterday, and sustained concussion of the brain. He lies in an insensible state…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ALBURY, Monday.--Mr. George Carter, son of a local coach proprietor, received a nasty scalp wound through incautiously going too near a cage containing tigers, belonging to Chiarini's Circus,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A few nights ago, a Mrs Longford, residing in a house in Benwick-lane, had occasion to go out for a few minutes and on returning and entering her bedroom was much alarmed at seeing a man there…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ADELAIDE, Monday.--An accident occurred on the Nairne railway to-day, through the brake attached to the engine giving way. The brake having been imperfectly repaired, the rods of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An accident which nearly resulted in the loss of two lives at Coogoe yesterday shows the folly of persons trusting themselves within the reach of the treacherous waves of the open, ocean. Mr. Augustus…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A railway accident occurred to a sheep and cattle train, which left Wodonga at 35 minutes past 1 this morning, in consequence of alleged neglect on the part of a pointsman. The trucks…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An accident happened to the machinery of the steamer City of Brisbane this morning, while on the voyage from Newcastle to Sydney, which caused her. detention for some hours. When off Bird Island one…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle, Tuesday. -- a shocking accident took place to-day at the Hexham railway station. Where a man named George Slaber was run over ; be was doing something to the train behind,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Mr Augustus, Glover, the actor, with a party of gentlemen, went to Coogee for the purpose of spearing crabs, As usual, there was a heavy sea rolling in, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- An accident happened last night to a live-stock train for Wodonga, While shuntingat Longwood five trucks containing sheep were thrown off the line, and 100 animals…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GUNDAGAI, Wednesday. -- A man named M'Le[?]ran, a sub-contractor on the railway line, met his death this afternoon by drowning. He went to bathe after dinner when it is supposed he was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Richard Knaggs, stockwan to Messrs. Hassall and Roberts, near Araluen, was inoculating cattle on Tuesday afternoon at Back Creek, when some of the beasts charged at him, and knocked…
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