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The engine and tender attached to a goods train ran off the end of the safety siding last evening through the interlocking operations not having been properly attended to. The engine and tender were considerably damaged, and…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A fatal accident occurred on the Great Northern Railway, at the Broadmeadows station, near Newcastle, on Monday night. While the excursion train from Gosford was proceeding to Newcastle, a gatekeeper named James Shields was…
Continued on Trove, page 677 →Yesterday morning, while a workman named Morris Morris (46), engaged at the Camden Yale Iron Foundry, was chipping some ironwork with a hammer and chisel, a piece of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →GOULBURN, Friday.--An accident occurred last evening on the railway line near the Gold-smith-street crossing. The ordinary up goods train started out between 7 and 8 o'clock, with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →KIAMA, Friday.--During some blasting operations at the Bombe quarries this afternoon a young man named Charles Allison was struck with a large piece of blue metal. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, September 16.—A fearful railway accident occurred this morning1. Two. excnrsion trains conveying passengers to the autumn race meeting at Doncastor collided near that town…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →An inquest was commenced before the acting coroner, Mr. A. M. Fisher, at the South Sydney Morgue yesterday, into the circumstances attending the death of William Kirby, the tram…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another boating accident, attended with, loss of life, was reported on Sunday morning to the police. Four men are supposed to be drowned, and one of the survivors, a lad named Chambers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Edward William Gordon, contractor, Cleveland-street, stated that he was in Randwick-road when he saw the tram approaching. The tram was travelling at an ordinary pace. He…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A sensational boating accident, resulting it is now almost certain, in the death of four men, occurred in Botany Bay, not far from the mouth of George's River, on Saturday afternoon. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The up-goods train which left Goulburn station on Thursday evening, between 7 and 8 o'clock, had not proceeded many hundred yards when it met with a mishap. The driver of the engine, Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At 5.45 o'clock on Saturday morning a man named Thomas Flynn, while standing in Regent-street, Redfern, speaking to a fiend in a cart, was knocked down and run over by a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Acting Coroner, Captain Fisher, J.P., began an inquest on Saturday, at the South Sydney Morgue, touching the death of a man named William Kirby, a motor driver, who was killed on the tramway at Moore Park, near…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A lamentable boat accident took place in Botany Bay on Saturday afternoon, by which it is feared four lives have been lost. The first intimation of the occurrence was given to the local police early…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WENTWORTH, Monday.--The body of John Cameron, who was drowned on Saturday night week, was found yesterday morning. Mr. Holding, the coronor, held an inquest to-day,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The water police boat has been, laying off the coast in the vicinity of the accident of Sunday night without finding any trace of the bodies of the missing men. Yesterday the weather was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The further particulars obtainable regarding the lamentable boat accident in Botany Bay, on Saturday afternoon, go to show that the fatality was one of the saddest and most heartrending of its kind that ever occurred in any of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Yesterday morning Henry Scope, 18, while working at the new Town-hall, George Street, Camperdown, fell from a ladder (which broke in two) a distance of 12ft., fractured one…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WOLLONGONG, Monday.--An accident, inflicting serious damage to rolling stock, happened on the Mount Kembla Company's railway line at half-past 10 o'clock this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The water police this morning received information that a man, name unknown, was seen to fall into the harbor last night at Pyrmont. He is supposed to have been a watchman on one of the…
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