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At the inquest held to-day on Connolly's three children the jury returned a verdict of accidental death. The evidence of six persons was taken. The inquiry lasted until nearly 3 p.m. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A terrible tragedy occurred on Saturday night by which three children lost their lives. They were aged respectively two, three, and five years, and from the facts which have been gleaned at the inquest, the parents who live in a tent…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →NEWCASTLE, Monday.--The tug Irresistible was coming out of Fort Stephen for Sydney, when a mishap happened to her machinery. The harbour master bere was communicated with, and he asked…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday morning a man, named George Scott, employed on the Pyrmont Bridge, observed the body of a man floating in the waters of Darling Harbour. He reported the matter to the police…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An accident of a rather serious nature happened yesterday, to a cabman named John Shelan, who was driving his cab in Oxford-street, and it collided with a tram motor No. [?]0. The cab wheels were broken,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--The Railway Commission held a sitting to-day, when the dispute between Mr Patterson, Deputy-Engineer'n Chief, and Mr Thoro, Locomotive Engineer, with reference to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fatal accident occurred at Messrs. Hudson Brothers' Works, Clyde. A man named James Rice, employed by Hudson Brothers, was caught between the buffers of two t[?]ucks on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr Shiell, the city coroner, held an inquest yesterday morning at the White Hart hotel, Lower George-street, on the body of Peter Cunningham, aged about 36 years. Deceased was by trade a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A serious accident occurred this morning at the Government Railway Works, Redfern, by which a young man named Thomas Howe, 19 years of age, and employed on the works as an engineer, sustained…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday, as the 1 o'clock tram was nearing the Smith-street corner, Parramatta, a horse attached to a cart (the wheels of which were locked) standing in front of Mr. Doyle's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A shocking accident, which has terminated fatally, took place yesterday on the Botany-road. A carter, named James Moss (aged 35 years), in the employ of the Stearine Candle Company, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PARRAMATTA, Wednesday.--A serious tram accident happened this afternoon in George-street. It appears that a man named George Bailey, living at Ryde, called at the office of the Building…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A man earned James Moss, 36 years of ago, employed as a carter at the Candle Works, Botany, was taken to the Prince Alfred Hospital, on Wednesday morning, at 20 minutes past I, suffering from sever…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PARRAMATTA, Thursday.--An inquest was held this afternoon at the hospital before Mr. Bowden, district coroner, on the body of James Rice, who met with an accident at Hudson's works…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A sad and fatal accident occurred last evening to a man named Patrick Field, 23 years of age, residing at Missenden-road, Camperdown. It appears that the [?] was a cabdriver, and while out riding…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, July 17.-News has been received of an appalling accident which occurred last night on the railway between Manchester and Sheffield. An express train was travailing, when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John T. Wynn, aged about 20 years, supposed to be a carpenter, who was brought to the Sydney Hospital on Wednesday afternoon suffering from injury to the head through being knocked down by a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A rather serious accident happened abot 5 p.m. yesterday. It appears that cs the Waveries tram was going round the curve at Liverpool-street, a man named Samuel Samuel jumped off while the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following coach accidents are reported in the Monaro Mercury of July 16:—"Whilst Mr. Frank Clowry was driving the Sydney mail coach across a rut near the bridge at Micalago on Sunday afternoon, he put his foot on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →News has been received of an appalling railway accident last night between Manchester and Sheffield. An express train was travelling, when an axle of one of the…
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