Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Mystery of a Police Cell. SYDNEY
An inquest was held yesterday afternoon on the body of James Taylor, who was arrested on Sunday for drunkenness and died en route…
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Accidents, 1902
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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph. Fell on a Pitchfork. MELBOURNE
A young man named Cottie, residing at Omeo, while working on a farm, fell from a haystack on to the prongs of a pitchfork held by another man. He is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Drowned whilst Bathing. SYDNEY
Arthur Turnbull, 19, clerk in the employ of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, Sydney, on a visit to a relation at Penrith, was…
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Arthur Conlon, residing at the Glebe, a member of a fishing party at San Souci yesterday, lost his hat overboard from a launch, and while…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Marine Disaster. Explosion on a Gunboat. Nineteen Men Drowned. [Reuter's Message.] London
In pursuing some fishing boats off Vigo, on the Spanish coast, the boiler of the Spanish gunboat Condor burst. The vessel then…
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AT a meeting of the South mine employees, held the other evening, the following officers were appointed to act in connection with the Mines…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Fatal Collision. MELBOURNE
Thomas Benaan, farmer, aged 70, was driving home in an empty milk waggon, when he was overtaken in a narrow road by a pair of bolting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Death from Starvation. SYDNEY
Alex. Kennedy, a brother of an eminent professor at the Glasgow University, died at Albury of starvation yesterday. Deceased was found…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Fatal Street Accident. MELBOURNE
Yesterday afternoon Edmond Hannan, aged 65, was knocked down by a cab in Flinders-street and was killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents with Horses. MELBOURNE
A. Reid, an old resident of the Euroa district, was leading a spirited horse yesterday, when the animal kicked him, breaking in his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Gored by a Bull. SYDNEY
George Hardy, residing at Failford, near Taree, on the Manning River, was gored by a bullock yesterday. The animal's horns went…
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AN inquest was held yesterday afternoon into the death of John Lawrence Guerin. Mr. J. R. Edwards appeared for the Proprietary…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Mother and Child Fatally Burnt. MELBOURNE
A house at Drysdale was burnt yesterday morning, and after the fire the lifeless corpses of Mrs. Martin and her infant were found in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drowned in the Derwent. HOBART
Walter Terrell, linotype operator in the Mercury office, was drowned in the Derwent on Saturday, while attempting to swim ashore (half a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burning Fatality in Kalgoorlie. PERTH, Sunday Night
A telegram from Kalgoorlie reports that a four-roomed house in Deegan-street was destroyed by fire yesterday, and the occupier, Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalites. [By Telegraph.] a Fatal Fall. SYDNEY
Letitia Wilson, a visitor from Braidwood, residing with her mother at Surry Hills, fell on the footpath yesterday and fractured her skull…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Killed on the Railway. SYDNEY
At the inquest on the body of Mr. Ridley, inspector of acoounts in the Auditor-General's Department, a verdict was returned that he died…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Crushed Under a Wall. STDNEY
Ivor Malcolm, a Goulburn tradesman, was undermining a wall yesterday, when it collapsed and buried him. "When extricated Malcolm was dead…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatality at the Big Mine. Frank Harrington Killed. Another Man Injured
DEEP regret was everywhere expressed to-day when it was reported that Frank Harrington had met his death by a fall of ore at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Two Miners Killed. MELBOURNE
While men were boring in the 991ft. level in the Hustlers' Reef No. 1 mine, Bendigo, ten tons of stone came away from the roof of a…
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