The Railway Accident in New York. London, March 7
Tn connection with the terrible railway collision winch occurred in a tunnel in New York on February 20, by which a number of lives were lost, Senator…
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Serious Railway Accident. Engine and Car Derailed. Driver and Fireman Buried. Some Miraculous Escapes. DUBBO
An accident of rather a serious nature occurred to the special train conveying Proudfoot Bros., railway contractors, and some railway inspectors from Narromine to…
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Several small mishaps occurred last night on the suburban tramlines. Delay in no case exceeded half an hour. A motor left the rails in Belmore Park, and a line of trams extending as…
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LONDON, March 7.—In connection with the fearful railway collision which occurred between two trains in a tunnel in New York on February 20, by which a…
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WINDSOR, Monday.--An inquest was held on Saturday at Spring Hill, Upper Dural, on the body of an infant son of a man named Bennett. The child was found…
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The barque Dryad, of Liverpool, has been wrecked during a gale off Start Point, in the English Channel. 24 lives were lost…
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At a magisterial inquiry held at St. Marys on Saturday on the body of an infant named Rebecca Wholohan, aged 15 months, who was accidentally smothered by an elder sister aged 3 years, a…
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An old man named George Remington, 71 years of age, was found dead on a sofa in the back part of Billet's Volunteer Hotel, Parramatta, yesterday morning. The old fellow left the…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A peculiar railway accident, in which, however, no one was injured, happened at Box-hill on Saturday morning. The 8.50 goods train from…
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NOWRA, Tuesday.—A party of five young girls went out on the Shoalhaven River in a small boat on Monday, and when only a short distance from the shore the boat capsized. The…
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WINDSOR, Monday. -- An inquest was held on Saturday at Spring Hill, Upper Dural, on the body of an infant son of a man named Bennett. The child was found…
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MELBOURNE, Monday. -- At noon to-day the front of two two-storey shops which were being erected in Simpson's-road fell and scattered over the pavement and road, burying two…
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In Adelaide on Monday Joseph Adone, who escaped from the gaol a little time ago, and was recaptured the same day, was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accident on the Wagonga Bar. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Nakooma
A narrow oscape occurred to a man on the Wagonga bar yesterday morning. Two boats of the Prince Alfred and Sarah Beattie, detaine by the heavy sea, proceeded to sound the bar, when Captain Browne's…
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MORUYA, Tuesday. -- Closely following on the suicide of a farmer, a young man named Lloyd accidentally shot himself white out shooting yesterday. The gun exploded…
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AN eighteen-months old child named John Eckman, a son of one of the Customs officials at Barranjoey, was playing on the wharf at that place on Monday afternoon…
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Last evening a shocking boat accident happened at Terara Wharf, two miles down the Shoalhave River from Nowra, whereby three young girls were drowned, and two others were rescued with difflculty. It seems…
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NOWRA, Wednesday.—The body of Miss Winnie Griffiths was found near the scene of the disaster on Tuesday night. The poor girl's hair was clutched in her mouth, and it was with difficulty…
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Another boy was drowned in close proximity to the flood gates in the river at Parramatta yesterday afternoon. George Ellich, six years of age, whose parents reside in Palmer-street…
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The Abergeldie, s.s., bound from Sydney to Dunkrk, which was reported in a massage of March 5 as having arrived, and the Pifeshire, s.s., which left Port Chalmers for l London on January 29, have been in collision off Gravesend…
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