Fatal Gun Accident. SYDNEY, Tuesday night
A son of Mr. King, stationmaster on the Eagle Farm at Brisbane, was cleaning a gun this morning when it exploded. Portions of the charge entered his thigh,…
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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Accidents
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A son of Mr. King, stationmaster on the Eagle Farm at Brisbane, was cleaning a gun this morning when it exploded. Portions of the charge entered his thigh,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A boy named Fogarty went into the river with his dog, when the current carried him away. He was drowned. His sister was standing by. The body has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The body of the boy Fogarty has been recovered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Saturday morning Stanley Bray, a lad of about 10, and a son of Mr. J. G. Bray, of this city, met with a painful accident through the explosion of a cartridge. It…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir George Dibbs met with a painful accident on Wednesday. He had just come out of the Union Bank Sydney, and was stepping over the kerbstone, when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the recent race meeting at Parkes jockey Edwards was thrown and injured. The club started a subscription list, and the splendid efforts of its members…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A CORRESPONDENT writes:—On Tuesday evening, as the Misses Allen, with their aunt (Miss Mayo), Mrs. Jenkins (schoolmistress), and Miss Polly Goodman, were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →George Graham, aged 15, a pupil at Wollaroi College, while plaping foot-ball on Thursday, fell and dislocated a knee-cap. Chloroform was applied by two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the commencement of the local jumping contest yesterday afternoon, about half-five, Mr. Thomas Donnelly, of Oberon, who was riding Sneaker, met with a nasty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two brothers named Laure and their two sons, settlers at Pepakaura, New Zealand, are believed to have been drowned whilst fishing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A kangaroo shooter named Terry, at Hie-Hie station, was seriously injured by an explosion of ammunition. A spark of fire was communicated to his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Quite a number of people turned up at the Show Ground on Saturday morning, when the local jumping contest, which had been postponed from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farther details of the terrible disaster at the Bousey Reservoir State that 110 persons are now known to have been drowned. The dam was 66ft broad at the base and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A shocking accident occurred in Neloctia mine to day. Three miners named John Egan, John Considine and Michael Egan were working in o drive, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A man named Richard Cooper had his arm drawn into a chaff cutter near Rylstone yesterday, and the limb was chopped off inch by inch to the elbow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A terrible accident occurred at Rylstone on Monday evening on Mr. W. M'Quiggan's estate to a young man named Richard Cooper, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A CORRESPONDENT at Stuart Town sends us the following particulars of a very sad accident which occurred near that place last week. He says:—On Wednesday, 24th ultimo,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LAST Sunday morning as Mr. A. Forrest was driving in his sulky along the Norah Creek road, about a mile from town, the horse was suddenly startled by something…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A shacking accident happened on the Zig-zag yesterday morning to the guard of a train from Penrith to Bathurst. He bad just alighted from the brake…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The down goods train this morning ran into two horses at Whittingham, killing one, and severely injuring the other. Damage was done the cylinder…
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