Sensational Street Accident. Sydney, Saturday Night
A runaway cab dashed into a railway tram full of passengers at the corner of Pitt and Liverpool-streets this morning. The shafts were…
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Accidents, 1908
258 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 9 of 13
Drowned in Mud
Two schoolmasters of Morlaix, France, and a girl, the daughter of one of them, were swallowed up by the soft mud in Morlaix Harbour at…
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A waterman named Christian Petersen was attending to the lines from the steamer Port Phillip, which was leaving the wharf at Circular Quay…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—As a result of the heavy rain on Saturday evening, a torrent of water rushed down the gutters of the steep streets. At Balmain, an elderly…
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Mrs. Carr, aged 82, of the Racecourse, had a narrow escape of being burned to death last week. While engaged burning off some grass the sudden change of wind caused the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Latest Cables. Collision at Sea. London
The German training ship, Freya, ran down the fishing schooner Maggie May in a dense fog off the Newfoundland fishing banks. Nine of the…
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Margaret Drown, aged 69, slipped while stopping across a Hooded gutter in Balmain, and the force of the water carried hor off her feet and swept hor into an underground…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Two farmers named Adams and Houlihan were capsized in a buggy near Shepparton, Victoria, on Tuesday night…
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A very sad occurrence took place between Clunes and Booyong on Tuesday afternoon, whereby Victor Davy, aged 20 years, lost hie life. Davy lives with his mother, and…
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One of Mr. A. F. Walsham's carters met with an unfortunate mishap whilst attempting to drive his cart on to the ferry punt at South…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The N.D.L. steamer Prinz Waldemar went out on Wednesday with passengers, and at 8 o'clock on Thursday morning was alongside the…
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The steamer Kooringai, bound from Kembla to West Australia with a coal cargo, was intercepted by sinal at Wilson's Promontory this morning. She has gone to…
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Two men of the American Fleet were drowned in the harbor on Saturday. One man, Leo. L. Cassidy,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident at Maclean
The Maclean "Advocate" says:--"On Friday afternoon Mr. T. Ryan, of Messrs. Johnson and Ryan, accompanied by his young son, was driving…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Submarine Accident. London
Lieutenant Groves, one of the heroes of the incident on submarine A9 when the whole of the crew of the vessel were overpowered by the escaping…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stationmaster Fatally Injured. Sydney, Saturday Night
Mr. Heers, stationmaster at Nambour (Q.), who was run over by a train on Friday, and subsequently had his leg amputated, died last night…
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The steamer Suva, of the A.U.S.N. line, and Fenwick's tug Hero, collided early on Friday morning off Norah Head. Considerable damage was…
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Quito a shock was experienced in Kempsey on Monday evening when it became known that Miss Lena Thornton, third daughter of…
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A very painful and serious accident befel Mr. S. Cook, on Wednesday evening. It appears, that Mr. Coot, together with a couple of other men, was engaged…
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Lieutenant Groves, one of the heroes of the incident on submarine A9 when the whole of the crew of the vessel were overpowered by the escaping…
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