The Peat's Ferry Railway Accident
A month has passed since the occurrence of the fatal railway accident at Windsor, in Victoria, by which five persons lost their lives and between eighty and a hundred…
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Terrible Accident on the Danube. London, June 21
Upwards of 300 Hungarian pilgrims have been drowned in the Danube by the capsizing of a raft during a, squall…
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Amongst the different [?]he[?les which have been propounded as to the cases of the railway minister that given by presents who have a through knowledge of the working of the…
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NEWCASTLE Friday.---A miner named Adam White has a narrow escape from being crushed to death in [?]ne .Min[?]i co[?]ety yesterday, through a sudden fad of coal which knocked him down,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Peat's Ferry Railway Accident. the Jury Visit the Scene
A visit of inspection was paid yesterday to the scene of the accident by the jury [?]npa[?]nelled on Thursday morning. The City Corner, Mr. K[?]rkca[?]die, assistant traffic…
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The jury empanelled for the purpose of inquiring into the cause of the recent disaster at the Hawkesbury River visited the locality yesterday. The Coroner, Mr. Shiel, met the members of the jury at the Christchurch police…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Accidents at the Minmi Colliery. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Newcastle
Two accidents are reported at the Minmi Colhery, to men named Adam White and Samuel Wells. The first was knocked down by a sudden fall of coal on his breast and head, and had a narrow escape from being crushed to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Football. Gossip by "Mark." " No game was ever yet worth a ra[?] For a rational man to play Into which no accident, no mishap, Could possibly find its way." —GORDON
The match, between the University and Wallaroo Clubs, which was played on the Association Cricket Ground last Saturday, was the means of attracting a much larger number of the public than is usually to be seen at club matches…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →Terrible Railway Accident. Six Persons Killed
One of the most terrible railway accidents which it has been our painful duty to chronicle occurred on the Homebush-Waratah railway line on Tuesday afternoon. An excursion train, conveying some…
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Inquiries at the Sydney and Prince Alfred Hospitals last night, elicited the cheering news that all the other patients were doing as well as could be expected. The Sydney Hospital now contains but two, and the Prince Alfred three of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Hawkesbury Railway Accident. Death of Miss Hunter
Miss Eliza Hunter has succumbed to her injuries. She flied in the Sydney Hospital, shortly before 5 o'clock on Saturday morning. The event was not unexpected—indeed, after the report as to her condition on Friday night,…
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WEST MAITLAND, Saturday.-- Master Walter Thompson a young son of the member for Manland, had a narrow escape from a serious accident a few days ago while out shooting…
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It is a misfortune that in our English system of government and jurisprudence there is no provision for a thoroughgoing and public investigation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Peat's Ferry Railway Accident. Death of Another Victim Criticism by Mr. Schey, M.p the Condition of the Sufferers Sermons on the Disaster
The department inquiry into the cause of the Hawkesbury railway accident was continued on Saturday women some important evidence was given by a number of wittiness,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drowning at Cobargo. (By Telegraph.)
CORARGO. Sunday,--An old man named Weather[?] by occupation a tinsmith, was found drowned under the Cobarge Bridge this afternoon. The police being away at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Injured
The reports as to the condition of the various sufferers from the Peat's Ferry disaster continue to be of a satisfactory character, and, generally speaking, the whole of them may be said to be improving. The only inmates of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Bail Way Accident
The inquiry commenced by the City Coroner on Thursday at the Assembly Hotel into the Hawkesbury railway accident was resumed by that gentleman yesterday at the Darlinghurst…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Peat's Ferry Railway Accident. the Departmental Inquiry
The member of the board appointed by the Railway Department to inquire into the cause of the rent's Ferry railway accident met again in the offices at Redfern railway station…
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NEWCASTLE, Monday.--while off Bum during the heavy weather yesterday morning the steamer Nemesis had two boits of the after compiling of the shaft broken. The steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Accident at Picton. (By Telegraph.)
PICTON, Monday.--Mr. W. V. Campbell met with a fatal accident yesterday. Having gone into the bush to drive cattle, and having failed to return, a search party went in quest of him…
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