Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
Thomas Lawlor, a stonemason, while working on a city building fell a diitance of 20 feet. His head came in contact with a stone and he was killed instantly…
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Accidents, 1900
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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Drowned whilst Bathing. BRISBANE
Bertie Curnow, a son of Mr. Curnow, exCommissioner of Railways, was drowned in the swimming baths on the river yesterday. He dived into deep water and never rose…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatality at the Proprietary. The Inquest
THE Coroner (Mr. T. Hall, J.P.) held an inquest this afternoon at the Courthouse into the death of Robert Lilley, who died last night from the effects of an accident at Block 12,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Father and Two Sons Drowned. MELBOURNE
J. G. M'Curdly and his two tons, George and William, were drowned at Swan Hill in the Murray yesterday. They were bathing, and one of the boys tried to recover a garment…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Six Italians Drowned. MELBOURNE
A boating accident occurred on the Thompson River, Walhalla, on Sunday, by which six Italians, John Ferrari, Joseph Peluci, Peter Novalia, George Ce Moroni, and…
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Three men—William Howard, William Twitt, and F. Mills—have been drowned at Loch Garry, Numurkah. They wen into the centre of a reedy lake in a boat to bathe, and…
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Vernon Wright, aged 18, was drowned while bathing at Bairnsdale yesterday. He gat out of his depth and was unable to swim…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Suicide of a Solicitor's Clerk. SYDNEY
Norman Alexander West, aged 22, a solicitor's clerk, residing at Elizabeth Bay, committed suicide with a revolver yesterday evening. No reason is assigned…
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CHARLES HAMMOND, a fireman employed at Baxter and Saddler's open cut, Proprietary mine, met with a painful accident this afternoon. He was "spragging" a waggon with a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
A laborer named Mortimer, working on the Federal wharf yesterday, was starting a gas engine when he became entangled in a wheel and was killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
Frank Board, aged 35, a mining speculator, committed suicide at a city coffee palace with a revolver last night. Al[?] Metcalfe, aged 19, was drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
On Saturday afternoon James Jose, aged 24, was sitting on the Port Melbourne pier watching some men fishing, and, on getting up without looking, he was knocked down by a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Fatality at Adelaide Station. ADELAIDE
In the Adelaide station yard yesterday, Julius Hanson met his death. He had been employed as a glut hand and was engaged in the erection of a new signal-box. While…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Collision at Sea. LONDON, Monday Afternoon
The steamer Heathfield has reached San Francisco after a collision at sea with the ship Ancyra…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Accident in the Open Cut. Run Over by a Truck
A LAD named Patrick Lynch met with a terrible accident in Baxter and Saddler's open cut last evening. He was a tracker, and whilst driving a track he slipped and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident at Block 10. a Miner Killed. Crushed Beneath a Falling Rock. Marvellous Escape of Another
A YOUNG man named Charles Blake or Malthouse met with a shocking and instanteneous death in Block 10 shortly after 2 o'clock this morning. The…
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Mr. Maitland, P.M., also held an inquest this afternoon into the death of Patrick Lynch, who was fatally injured in Baxter and Saddler's open cut, Proprietary mine,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following appeared in yesterday's Third Edition:— INQUESTS. The Block 10 Fatality
MR. MAITLAND, P.M., this afternoon held on inquest at the Courhouse into the death of Charles Blake, who was killed in Block 10 mine this morning. Sergeant Scott…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Railway Collision. [By Telegraph.] Brisbane
A telegram from Charters Towers states that a train conveying Day Dawn Block quartz collided yesterday with a string of empty trucks, which had been left on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accidents and Fatalities. Shocking Machinery Accident
ARTHUR MANSALL, aged 35, a resident of Iodide-street, met with a shocking accident at the Zinc Works shortly after 12 o'clock last night. While attending to some machinery…
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