Burning Fatality
"Whilst walking near some burning rubbish, Mrs. Hugh McLean was literally roasted to death through her clothes catching fire…
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Accidents, 1899
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Fatality at Burraga
BURRAGA, FRIDAY, 2 p.m.--A man named John McKenny was killed here to-day by falling down a shaft about twenty feet, breaking his neck. Deceased was only a young man and highly respected…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boating Fatality. SYDNEY
During a squall at Hobart, Frederick Macdonald, a clerk, was drowned from a fishing boat…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Late Telegrams. Sydney, Thursday. Drowned at Sea
During the voyage of the ship Muneasser Castle from London to Melbourne, the second mate named G. Banthorpe, was lost overboard…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Railway Fatality. LONDON
In a collision on the Aboukir Railway (waive persons, including the Governor of Alexandria, were injured…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Egyptian Railway Collision. LONDON
A serious railway collision occurred on the railway from Aboukie to Alexandria. A large number of persons were injured, among them being the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Injured by a Cricket Ball
On Thursday evening at about dusk a very painful accident happened to Vera, the eitht-year-old daughter of Mr. W. H. Wilson, of Durham-street. She was at Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Collision in New Zealand. WELLINGTON
The most appalling railway accident that has taken place in the history of New Zealand occurred on Saturday night at Rakaia. While an excursion train, crowded with passengers, was waiting at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Horse Accident
WEDNESDAY morning, Mr. George Windred was engaged schooling a horae for the jumping contest at Cumnock Show, when it managed to hit the hurdle and fell over, throwing its rider…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Shooting Accident. a Dubbo Boy Shoots His Cousin. Sydney
Mary Aun Jones was accidentally shot by her cousin George Been, aged 15, at Dubbo yesterday. The girl died shortly afterwards. The baby she was nursing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →2nd Edition The World a Disastrous Fire. Through a Smoker's Carelessness. New York Hotel Consumed. 14 KILLED, 50 Injured. Sensational Scenes. London
The celebrations held in New York yesterday in honor of St. Patrick's Day were ma red by an appalling catastrophe. During the procession held in the…
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A boy named Edgar Stammers, aged five, was, with others, looking at the men unloading at Carcoar flour mill on Saturday afternoon, when a bag of wheat accidentally…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Injured While Mining
On St. Patrick's Day at Mt. David, Harry Rogers, aged 21, met with a painful accident. He was working in a shaft with a mate, about a mile form Mt…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Burraga Fatality. Killed in a Shaft
As already wired, on Friday last, John McKenney, whilst working in a 56-foot shaft with his brother, fell a distance of 20 feet, and was killed instantly, his neck being broken and his skull terribly smashed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shocking Fatality at Dubbo. A Little Girl Shot. Careless Use or Firearms
The suburb, of Dubbo, Newtown, was thrown into a state of excitement on Friday evening about 6 o'clock by a report that a girl had…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Se[?] Accident
MISS ELLA [?] of the Molong Refreshement Roo[?] met with a nasty accident last night, just prior to the arrival of the excursion train from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible Tramway Accident A Man Killed
A man whose name had not been ascertained met with a terrible sudden death at Marrickville on Tuesday night. He wanted to catch a…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A Nasty Accident
On Wednesday a man named Bing, a resident of Windeyer, received a very severe wound of the thumb while chopping wood. The…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Accident at Lidsdale
An accident of a very serious nature occurred yesterday afternoon (Monday) at half-past five. It appears that Horace Nolan and his brother, George, were testing the speed of two young horses, when, in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Accident
Lawson, Wednesday.-- A Chinese' hawker' who was travelling along the Mountains had a miraculous escape from death yesterday evening. While he was crossing the railway line, at Faulconbridge, a luggage…
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