The Falcon-queenscliffe Collision
MELBOURNE, Friday.--The inquiry by the Steam Navigation Board into the circumstances attending the collision of the steamtug Falcon with the steamer Queenscliffe off the…
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The Fatality near Que[?]nbeyan
QUEANBEYAN, This Day.--The funeral of the unfortunate man Corne[?] Grady, wh was killed on the railway yesterday evening took place to-day Deceased was…
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There is no cry so startling to the ears of the small community aboard of ship than the cry of "Man overboard." Penned together within the narrow limits of shipboard, sharing in the same daily labour, and participating in the…
Continued on Trove, page 546 →Fatal Accident on the Railway Near Queanbeyan. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Queanbeyan
A sad fatality occutred last night on the railway line about four miles from here. A farmer named Cornelius Grady, living at Yarralumia, was proceeding home on horseback, and it is conjectured he missed the truck at…
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A railway accident occurred on the Boxhill line on the night of the 2nd instant, by which four goods trucks and the engine werethrown off the line. One passenger, a lady, was much shaken. There is a single line from…
Continued on Trove, page 523 →Fatal Accident near Queanbeyan. A Man and Horse Cut to Pieces
QUEAN[?]AN, This Day.--A man named Cornelius Grady, a farmer residing at Yarralumla, while riding along the railway line, last night, was overtaken by the mail…
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MELBOURNE, This Day.--An inquest was opened at the Melbourne Hospital this morning on the body of May Bunbery a married woman, who on February 15…
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MUDGEE, Friday.--An accident of a most painful nature happened to a man named Stake at Cudgegong yesterday. While engaged in pouring some boiling lead into a grindstone in…
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QUEANBEYAN, Friday.--A man named Cornelius Grady was killed by the 9 o'clock down train from Michelage to Queanbeyan last night. It appears that after dark the deceased…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Accident Near Peat's Ferry. (By Telegraph.)
PEAT'S FERRY, Friday.--a goods train from Sydney, which arrived here about 6 o'clock this afternoon, ran into a large lump of soft rock which had fallen down one of the cuttings near…
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WILCANNIA, This Day.--A man named Wychcots Tumor, who camped, with three others, on the bank of the River Darling, opposite Menindie, was drowned on…
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NEWCASTLE, This Day.--It is my painful duty to record the second fatal accident that has occurred on the Newcastle tramways. The victim on this occasion…
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OUR special reporter journeying to the Sir Joseph Banks' Handicap this afternoon wired:--"A fearful accident happened to a man named Henry Smith, 60 years of age,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatal Tram Accident at Wickham. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Newcastle
Last night, at 10.30, a married woman named Downie, lesiding in Florence-street, Wickham, was crossing the tram line near Charlton-street, Wickham, and was struck by a tram motor. She was carried along the line for 100…
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MR. SHIELL, City Coroner, held an inquiry at the Coroner's Court to-day, into the circumstances attending the death of Thomas Cannell, aged 62 years, a…
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A MAN named David. Raynor, aged 35 years, married, and living in Campbell-street, Camperdown, met with a fatal accident to-day at the joinery establishment…
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PEATS' FERRY, This Day.--Yesterday afternoon a large plank fell some 40ft or 50ft, through carelessness, it is alleged, from the scaffolding…
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William Jaroine, an undertaker's assistant, living Riley-afreet, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital on Saturday suffering from injuries received through a fall. An…
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NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--A fatal accident occurred in Charlton-street at 11 o'clock last night. Mrs. Downie, wife of Mathew Downie, of Fibrence-street, Wickham, was crossing the…
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The City Coroher began an inquest at the Prince Alfred Hospital yesterday into the circumstances attending the death of Henry Smith who was killed while travelling to…
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