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The public of New South Wales will soon begin to look for their daily railway accident as a matter of ordinary course. "If something be not soon done by the railway authorities to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.--As the result of a quarrel which took place in Nic[?]lson-street, Brunswick, last night, between William Danaher and Mrs. Boland, the latter died in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →William Thomas, slaughterman, met with a serious accident in a peculiar manner at King's slaughteryards. Whilst engaged dressing a bullock his knife slipped as he severed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The adjournod inquest concerning the death of John Richard Woulfe, aged 50, a bellringer at St. Andrew s Cathedral, who died at the Sydney Hospital on the 7th instant from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Many of the uninjured passengers on the Brisbane mail train which crashed into the second division of the Glen Innes mail train from Sydney at the Murrurundi Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →RIVERSTONE, Thursday.--Esselton Honeman, son of Mr. Charles Honeman, of Vineyard, was killed at Prospect quarry yesterday afternoon. He placed in the last blasting charge of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →William Frederick Musters, a wharf laborer, was accidentally shot in the leg yesterday while showing a revolver to a companion. The bullet was extracted at Sydney Hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →George Gribble, a resident of Waterloo, while leaning from a tramear in Cleveland-street yesterday, was struck by a passing car, and knocked to the ground, sustaining serious…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The woman named Connie Riley, between 40 and 50 years of age, who, while attempting to board a train at the Central Railway Station on the 6th inst…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The mortal remains of the unfortunate Anne Selmes, whose death, from accidentally falling on a pair of scissors, was reported last week, were interred in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There was a sensational railway smash at Murrurundi yesterday morning. Two trains met in a head-to-head collision. The Brisbane mail crashed into the second division of the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Trains as they appeared after the impact. One of the Smashed Carriages. Clearing away the Wreckage. Another View, Showing Damaged Engines. (Photos, by J. Cust, of Murrurundi.)…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"I was not quite awake at the time," said Corporal Simmons, "but after the crashing of the engines I was very much awake. The crush was terrific, and could be heard at a…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The wreckage was cleared away by about 1 o'clock this afternoon. The three engines were badly damaged, and the smash is one of the worst accidents that has ever…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →MURRURUNDI, Friday.--Another serious railway mishap--tempered only by the fact that where there might have been an appalling list of casualties, comparatively few, of a minor…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"There is a single line which runs past Murrurundi station, and to enable the up and the down trains to pass a loop line is provided. Usually the down train, after unloading its…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A shocking railway accident occurred on the Essendon railway line this evening, when a woman was literally out to pieces by a train at a point about 200 yards south of the Moonee…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Interviews with railway men conversant with the tablet, interlocking, and staff systerns in vogue on our railways indicate that theoretically two trains cannot meet on the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →As far as can be gathered, the accident was caused through a mistake in the signals. The Glen Innes train was running late owing to the heavy holiday traffic, and had to pull out…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Many of the uninjured passengers on the Brisbane mail train which crashed into the second division of the Glen Innes mail train from Sydney at the Murrurundi Railway…
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