Drowning in Queensland. BRISBANE
A boating party from Sir Thomas M[?]IIraith's pleasure yacht pulled in a dingy off to Bribie Island on Saturday afternoon. The dingy was swamped,…
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Accidents, 1893
340 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 5 of 17
Doubler Drowning in Tasmania. LAUNCESTON
A small party was out in a boat fishing off the Tamar Heads, at the entrance to Launceston, on Saturday. By some means not as yet explained…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Steamer Wrecked. Two Men Drowned. [By Telegraph.] Auckland
The Ruby, a small coastal steamer, while attempting to cross the Mangawa bar, has been wrecked, and two of the crew have lest their lives by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Holiday Mishaps. a Long List [By Telegraph.] Accidents in Victoria. MELBOURNE
A lad named Fraser, 16 years of age, together with a younger brother and a friend, all of Footscray, went to Geelong on Saturday on a holiday trip…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Accident. Constable Mackay Injured
A SOMEWHAT serious accident happened to Constable Mackay on the Silverton tramway last evening. He was at the goods station, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Shocking Accident. An Enginedriver Blown to Atoms. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Saturday Afternoon
A shocking accident happened in the city this afternoon at the buildings at the corner of Collins and Elizabeth streets, nov in course of erection…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Shocking Accident. An Enginedriver Blown to Atoms. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Saturday Afternoon
A shocking accident happened in the city this afternoon at the buildings at the corner of Collins and Elizabeth streets, now in course of erection…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Minimg Accident. a Supposed "Miss-fire." [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
Robert Corbett and L. Eisbang, two miners, had a wonderfully narrow escape from instant death while they were working in the Midas mine,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Gun Accident. a Youth Kills his Aunt. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
A terrible gun accident is reported from Tallangatta. A youth named James Matheson, 17 years of age, was explaining something about…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Painful Accident
A LAD named John Price, aged about 13 years, was delivering MINERS yesterday evening, when the horse which he was riding stumbled…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sad Drowning Fatality. a Brave Little Girl Drowned. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
Several little girls were playing in the Botanic Park last evening, on the banks of the Yarra, when one of their number, Victoria Sc[?]aefer, 10 years of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Collision in the Yarra. Serious Damage Done. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
A somewhat serious collision occurred in the Yarra yesterday evening between the passenger and excursion steamers Edina and Courier. Nobody,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Sisters Drowned. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
Quite an unusual number of cases of the accident drowning of young children have been reported lately. The latest has happened at Geelong…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident at Wilcannia. [By Telegraph.] Wilcannia, Monday Afternoon
An accident happened on the race-coarse on Saturday. Two jockeys named Findlay and Williams were schooling their horses over the jumps…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Shooting Affray. An Injured Husband's Revenge. [By Telegraph.] Brisbane
A telegram has been received from Croydon, in the far North, reporting that James Lynch was shooting on Saturday night the Golden Valley,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tae Manton Mystery. The Albert Park Drowning Case. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
Some unexpected evidence has been adduced by Dr. Mullen, who appears for the defence of John Alexander Manton, charged with the murder of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Mine Accident. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
An accident occurred at the New Post-office mine, Ballarat East, yesterday afternoon, by which a miner named Henry Grimmett, 30 years of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drowned Near Wilcannia. [By Telegraph.] Wilcannia, Friday Afternoon
A man named Branston was drowned yesterday in Kalynka Creek, an an[?]-branch of the Darling River. Whilst he was duck shooting, in company…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sad Drowning Fatality. a Brave Little Girl. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
Victoria and Catherine Lewry and Wilhelmina Kennedy, three little girls, were playing on planks which they had made into a sort of raft and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Mine Accident
THE Ballarat Courier of Thursday gives the following additional particulars of the fatal mining accident to Henry Grimmett:—A mining accident,…
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