Terrible Railway Accident
London, July 17.--News has been received of an appalling railway accident which occurred last night between Manchester and Sheffield to the express train. The axle of one…
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Dynamite Explosion. Two Miners Injured Near Glen Innes. Glen Innes
A dreadful dynamite explosion occurred yesterday in No. 74 railway cutting, near Bolivia. George Howard and P. Costello entered the cutting to draw a charge, when it exploded. Both…
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A fetal accident occurred at Dalton's Wharf about 9 o'clock this morning. One of the quarrymen had just finished his breakfast, and was commencing his work at a crane. when the chain, which was rather…
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A serious accident occurred this morning to a man named Joseph Atcheson, a quarryman residing at David-street, Leichhardt. The unfortunate man was at work in a hole about 30ft deep, at Goodlet and…
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An accident occurred yesterday afternoon at Railway-street, Petersham, by which a young man named Rodd had a narrow escape of losing his life. He was engaged in extracting some cartridges from a…
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A coach accident, fortunately unattended with fatal result, happened last night to Cobb and Co.'s mailcoach, which left here at the usual hour, 4.45 p.m., in charge of Charles Kelly, one of the most careful drivers…
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LONDON, July 17.—News is received from the north of an appalling accident on the railway between Manchester and Sheffield. An express train was travelling at. a high speed, when an…
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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…
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The barque Vanguard, Captain Shaw, from London to Brisbane, arrived yesterday, and reports having run into the barque Farningham, from Dunedin to Adelaide, on July 11, off…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.--The V[?]nguardn barque, Captain shaw, from London, just arrived, reports having ran down the [?]arningham, a schooner bouns for Adelaide, off the coast of Tasmania. The…
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The Vanguard, barque, Captain Shaw, from London to Brisbane, arrived yesterday, and reports having run into the Farningham, barque, from Dunedin to Adelaide, on July 11, off Tasmania, The…
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A serious accident happened on Saturday to Mr. C. R. Wood, the well-known bicycle rider, on the new cinder track, on the Association Ground. He was just about to enter for the final heat, when, owing to…
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GOULBURN, Saturday.--A young man named Samuel Slatter, clerk in the office of Mr. Gannon, solicitor, accidentally shot himself this morning. He was handling a revolver, the muzzle being…
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NEW YORK, July 20.-A railway accident involving great loss of life occurred to-day in the State of Ohio. A passenger train left the rails end fell over an embankment into a river,…
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BRISBANE, Monday.--Further particulars are to hand respecting the collision between the barques Vanguard and Farningham. The Vanguard, a barque of 683 tons, was the property of Messrs…
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The names of those lost aboard the barque Farning[?] by collision with the barque Vanguard were Broughton (able seaman), W. Morton (ordinary seaman), and Gerber (a youth). The collision occurred…
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Mr. Fletcher, M.L.A., senior member for Newcastle, is laid up in his country residence, Styles Grove, near Wallsend. About ten years ago he partially dislocated one of his knses by a fall…
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This morning, on the Clarendon racecouse, while Huxley, the well-known jockey, was working Why Not at aa easy canter, the horse put his foot in a hole, and Huxley was thrown very heavily. He was very seriously…
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Frank Stafford was admitted into the Sydney hospital this morning, his foot having been smashed by a mass of iron falling upon him. The injured man was driving alone Pitt-street with a load of railway…
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A man named Peter Petersen, a seaman on the steamer Arawata, was taken to the Sydney Hospital yesterday, by one of the ship's, company, who reported that on Thursday last, during a very…
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