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A terrible railway accident occurred on the Homebush-Waratah line yesterday afternoon, resulting in a lamentable destruction of life and property. It appears that an excursion train which left Sydney at 10.25 a.m. for the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two vessel belonging to Havre--La Champagne and La Vilie de Rio de Janeiro--came into collision on May 7 during a dense fog in the English Channel, says the Lions N[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Upwards of 300 Hungarian pilgrims have been drowned in the Danube by the capsizing of a ruft during a squall…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Queen's Jubilee day has been commemorated in disaster as well as demonstration. An excursion train conveying some 250 passengers to Peat's Ferry, on the Hawkesbury,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BATHURST, Tuesday.--Blackburn, who had both legs amputated in the railway accident near Bathurst, is sinking fast. Mortification has set in and he is not likely to live many…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The City Coroner held an inquest yesterday afternoon at the South Sydney Morgue. touching the death of a middle aged man. named arrived Patrick Gailagner. who died rather…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The whole of yesterday Dr. Woodward was engaged visiting as many of the injured as be possibly could, and in every case but one was enabled to give a satisfactory buletin. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The master of the Leveret, Captain John Backey, who had been called upon to show cause why his certificate should not be suspended or cancelled in consequence of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the South Sydney morgue yesterday, the City Coroner, Mr. H. Shiell, J. P., resumed the inquest commenced on Wednesday, the 15th instant, touching the death of John Neal and John Downes, who, on the proceeding day, were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A special train from Sydney arrived here this morning at about 6 o'clock with Mr. Downe, assistant locomotive engineer, in charge of about 40 men, who at once began removing the debris and clearing the track; they…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Mayor of this town (Mr. William Knapton) was killed last night. His body was found this morning on the road near the Church of England old parsonage. He was on his way home, driving his buggy, and it is supposed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,—At a time like this everyone will be puzzled to know what provisions, are made in our railway system against the contingency of a runaway train, which has lost the power of the brakes, or of a carriage or two which may…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--A shortening accident occurred in the Adelaide Areade to-night, when the beadle of the place, named Frances Cluney, was crushed to death in the gas engine used to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--A railway portex named William Poyser was killed at Dry Creek yesterday by being crushed between the butters of two carriages…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Parramatta correspondent writes:--"Not many months have elapsed since, in relating the cause of some trifling accident on the railway, I drew attention in the columns of The Daily…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The inquiry into the circumstances under which John Neal and John Downs met with their death on the 14th inst., when part of the sewer in Belmore Park collapsed, was continued…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BATHURST, Wednesday.--Joseph Blackburn, who was injured by a railway accident on Friday and who had both legs amputated, died in the hospital at 1 o'clock this morning. An…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our illustration represents the scene of the accidents as viewed from the shore at a distance a about 150[?]. The embankment on which the collision took place stretches clear from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Alex, Knights, 16 years of age, residing at Warrnambool, was accidently shot dead through a gun accidentally going off while he was getting over a fence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PEAT'S FERRY, Wednesday.--The residents of Peat's Ferry were aroused at an early hour this morning by the arrival of a train from the metropolis containing Mr. Downe, Assistant…
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