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A railway accident has occurred at Sydney, a settlement on the Union Pacific Railroad, in Nebraska Territory, U. S. The train caught fire, and the whole of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Engine No. 47, of a ballast train from Kiama, comprising six dump-cars laden with blue metal and brakevan, the whole weighing 189 tonn, left the rails at a straight and level section near Bellambi, and 44 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Intelligence has been received from America of a frightful catastrophe at the works on a bridge over the Ohio River. The water rose in a caisson in which 18…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,--In Wednesday's SYDNEY MORNING HERALD there appeared a letter signed W. J. Boyd, in which he refers to the way half-deckers and open boats are sailed in this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The resident surgeon of the Sandhurst Hospital officials made a special examination at noon, on Saturday, of the victims of Friday's fearful accident at Lazarus…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WHILST leading a horse and cart this morning a young fellow named George Bullock, aged 24, living oft. Bay-street, Botany, had the misfortune to get struck on the neck by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A peculiar accident, which resulted fatally, befel a Chinese hawker named Ah Get. Deceased had just arrived from Enngonia with a spring cart heavily laden,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The death of the little boy William Slattery, who was killed by being run over by a tram in Oxford-street last Thursday, formed the subject of an inquest before the City Coroner and a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A RATHER narrow escape from what might have been a serious accident occurred to-day. A horse and cart containing a Mr. Quinn and his son Percy, aged 14, was being…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A YOUNG laborer named Joseph Johnson, aged 26, living at Concord, employed ut the Australia Hotel, in course of erection in Castlereagh-street, was uncoupling two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Monday.--The body of a little boy, nine years of age, named Joseph Fitzgerald, was found floating in tho harbor close to Market Wharf this morning. Deceased had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--An accident occurred near Glenorchy on Saturday to Mr. Welland, manager of the Newington Park station. In making a short cut across a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thomas Rhoden, aged 55, a miner, residing at Austinmer, was knocked down and killed by a ballastengine near Robinsville station shortly after 4 this afternoon. His skull was smashed, and his body…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →NEWCASTLE, Monday.—On Saturday afternoon, whilst & small village cart was being driven along from Maitland to Islington, it suddenly capsized, and was dragged by the horse some…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—The hurdle racer Idle Boy met with an accident near Glenorchy on Saturday. Mr. Weiland, the manager of Newington Park Station, took a short cut across the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A man named Gerald Barry, employed in the Electric Telegraph Department, appeared in the Brisbane Police Court on Monday on a charge of attempting to commit suicide by jumping into…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A passenger on board the P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Stam writes: —"We were gally steaming along, and expected to be in Aden by 1 a.m. on Thursday, the 28th. About 2 p.m. the previous day there was a sudden 'fizz' and a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Hon. John Lord, M.L.C., was killed to-day by being thrown out of a cab, Being in ill-health, be was in the habit of going for a drive, every afternoon. This afternoon, when in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →HOBART, Tuesday.--The Hon. John Lord, M.L.C., while driving in the Domain yesterday afternoon, was thrown from the vehicle, and sustained such injuries as to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Railway Commissioners hare received a report with reference to the accident to the ballast train near Bella[?]bi Station on Friday. The report states that there was a slight defect…
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