The following appeared in our Third and Special Editions of yesterday. Terrible Railway Accident. the Mysterious Russian Ship. the S.S. Lindus Afloat Again. the City Council. the Divorce Bill. the Australian Rifle Team. Law Report. Stock and Share Report. Alleged Distillation Homebush Stock Sales. the Hospital. Parliament. City Council. Terrible Railway Accident. Brisbane, This Day
Globe · Friday 7 May 1886 · page 3
A serious accident befel the goods train between Ipswich and Brisbane yesterday. While crossing the tressle bridge one waggon fouled with another, and crashed…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 May 1886 · page 5
BAISBANE, Thursday.--A railway accident of a serious nature happened on the Southern and Western line yesterday afternoon, on the Brisbane side of the Goodnn…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 May 1886 · page 7
An inquest was held by the City Coroner yesterday morning, at the South Sydney morgue, relative to the death of John Spencer, who was killed on the previous day on the railway line…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 May 1886 · page 5
ADELAIDE, Thursday. -- James George Forrest, pointsman on the Hills Railway, and Henry Lindsay, signalman, have been dismissed from the service for negligence in…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 May 1886 · page 8
THE departure of the British-India Company's R.M.S. Merkara for Queensland ports has been delayed in consequence of an accident to the machinery, the piston rod having…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 May 1886 · page 13
Atabout 1.30 a.m. on Wednesday, an assistant guard. in the employment of the Railway Department was. killed at the Ashfield Station, in the following circumstances. He was engaged in shunting some…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 May 1886 · page 10
A horrible affair is reported in. the New Zealand Preas as having occurred in Waiparo. Somo six months'ago the Waiparo block was adjudicated upon by the Land Court; and tho chief Tuta Mibanibo…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 8 May 1886 · page 982
A man named James Mitchell, a patient in the Perramatta Hospital, was found drowned in the river this evening. Deceased bad been an inmate of the hospital since his admission in January, and had undergone two…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 8 May 1886 · page 971
The commission appointed to inquire into the Ferndale accident has been shunted for the present to Lithgow, and has commenced its sittings. This inquisition is certainly needed, for the coroner's…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 8 May 1886 · page 952
ON Sunday night the Braidwood mail coach, heavily laden and with its full complement of passengers, was capsized at Bora. The driver, it appears, left his seat to get the mailbag, and he handed the reins…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 8 May 1886 · page 953
A SHOCKING accident occurred at Ashfield railway station on Wednesday. Shortly after 1 a.m. on assistant-guard named John Spencer was engaged in the work of shunting some trucks which were attached to a…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 8 May 1886 · page 953
His Excellency Sir William Jervois had a narrow escape from drowning this evening. While going on board the Government steamer at Manakau, His Excellency missed his footing, and fell into the water. He…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 8 May 1886 · page 953
A serious accident occurred on the Southern and Western Railway this afternoon. It appears that the men engaged in duplicating the line were working on the approach to the bridge near Goodna. The…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 May 1886 · page 5
BRISBANE, Friday.--The board of inquiry into the circumstances of the railway accident which took place on Wednesday near Good[?] submitted their report to-day to the…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 May 1886 · page 11
LONDON May 5 —The departure of the British— India Co:'s R.M.S. Merkara, for Queensland ports, has been delayed in consequence of the breakage of a piston…
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Evening News · Monday 10 May 1886 · page 6
Our Bowral correspondent wired this afternoon:— A tourists train, due at Bowral at noon on Saturday, ran into a goods train on the railway bridge about a quarter of a mile from the Bowral station-house…
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Evening News · Monday 10 May 1886 · page 5
A little fellow named Walter Parker, 4 years of age, met with some terrible injuries on Saturday, which led to his death. The child, with some companions, was playing on a piece of waste land…
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Evening News · Monday 10 May 1886 · page 5
The railway collision at Bowralâa report of which appeared in the third edition of the EVENING NEWS on Saturdayâwas a near approach to a terrible disaster (said our Bowral correspondent). It occurred…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 May 1886 · page 5
COOKTOWN, Friday.-- The Circuit Court has just concluded the case of Regina v. Simpson, the chief officer of the City of Melbourne. Judge Cooper in summing up…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Serious Railway Accident at Bowral. Collision Between a Tourist and a Goods Train. Many Persons Injured. [By Telegraph.] (Form Our Own Correspondene.) Bowral
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 May 1886 · page 5
A serious railway collision occurred to-day on the Southern line, near the bridge, between the tourist train and a goods train. The No. 7 down tourist train from Sydney, which left Redfern at 8.30 a.m., and an up goods train, drawn by No. 44…
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