Shocking Boating Fatality. Sailors Devoured by Sharks. Noumea
News has just been received that a boat from the ship Bay of Naples, containing 14 Russian sailors belonging to that ship, capsized while crossing the…
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Accidents, 1898
391 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 10 of 20
A Launching Catastrophe. Thirty-six People Drowned. Heroic Rescues. London, Tuesday night
The new battleship Albion was launched from the yard of the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company at Black wall this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Late Cumnock Accident
MR. J. G. SHERRINGHAM, father of the unfortunate lad, Charles Purcell Sherringham, who was killed at Cumnock last week, writes:—"I may mention that I do not think for a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Football Accidents
Whilst playing in the match Our Boys B v. Bathurst B on Wednesday, James Davies, one of the former team, sustained a broken collar bone. He crossed over the line, when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident on the Bowenfels Road
An accident by which Mrs. Sutton, wife of Mr. Thos. Sutton, had a very narrow escape from serious injury, happened on the Bowenfels-road last Saturday evening. Mrs. Sutton, who had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hunting Fatality
Mr. F. E. Staughton, of Eumerella East station, near Macarthur, Victoria, was killed on Thursday at the Hamilton Hunt Club meet. His horse fell at the last fence, 4ft…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Riding Accident
A lad named Owers, aged 14, was thrown from his horse at Beni yesterday afternoon. On Dr. Hope's arrival he found Ower's unconscious, and suffering…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Injured by a Falling Tree
A well-known resident, Mr. James Crook, sen., suffered an accident to-day while engaged in tree-grubbing at Gillmore's farm, West End. A tree fell…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Curious Accident. GOULBURN
A baker named Zervas met with a carious accident at Inverlochy. While shaking a bottle of yeast it burst, nearly blowing the ball of his thumb off. Prompt…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sad Hunting Fatality
On Wednesday afternoon some lads were out shooting wallabies near Heathcote, on the Illawarra Railway Line. Mr. Dunn's son, aged 15. saw the scrub moving, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident to Father Kelly
We hear that the Rev. Father Kelly met with a nasty accident while proceeding from, Blayney to Vittoria to hold a Service on Saturday last. It…
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ON Monday morning last, while engaged grubbing and clearing on Gillmore's farm, near town, Mr. James Crook, senior, had a miraculous escape…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Blasting Accident
On Wednesday afternoon while two men named James Smitherman and John Westcott, were engaged in loading half a charge in a hole in Bushman's mine the charge exploded…
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A young man named Charles Gordon met with a terrible accident at Glen Elgin on Tuesday, by being blown up by a charge of dynamite. The fuse haying hung fire,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Burning Accident
A serious accident befel Mrs. Newton, wife of the Coonable resident engineer, on Tuesday night. The lady had washed her hair with a solution of kerosene, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fortunes by Accident
If there is anything that makes a poor, toiling man happy it is to read about flukes that have made fortunes. For instance, there was a captain of a vessel plying…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Strange Change of Verdict. Regarding the Railway Fatality. Sydney
At the inquest to-day on the body of Joseph Hall, the locomotive fireman who was killed at Eveleigh railway sheds yesterday, it was shown that the deceased…
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The lad Owers, who was thrown from his horse at Beni last Sunday, died from the injuries received yesterday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Painful Accident
A lad, about 10 years of age, son of Mr. Mclntyre, dairyman, on the Vale Road, met with a painful accident on Saturday. The toea of one foot were badly crushed, through…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Tram Accident. Sydney
While a tram was proceeding along King-street, Newtown, the evening, the gauge-glass broke, and two lady-passengers jumped out and fell. One, Mrs…
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