Terrible Dynamite Accident
A CORRESPONDENT, writing from Capertee Camp on August 5, gives the following account of the recent dynamite fatality that occurred at Crown…
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The Drowning of Four Men at Circular Head
By the arrival of the steamer Glenelg (Captain Snewin) at Port Adelaide on Monday morning, August 22, from Tasmania, the S. A. Advertiser was enabled to obtain…
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A terrible railway accident occurred this morning on the Hobson's Bay line, near Melbourne station. A train was running into the station at great speed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Collision between the Steamers Hero and Herga. (Echo of Tuesday.)
A collision of a serious nature took place in Sydney harbour during last night between the Union Steamship Company's Hero (s.) and the Coal Cliff Company's Herga (s.)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible Railway Accident in Melbourne. (Telegram in Herald.) Melbourne, Tuesday, 11 a.m
This morning, when the early express train from Brighton was approaching the Jolimont crossing, a wheel struck the chair of the railway, upsetting the carriage from the line and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Railway Accident in Melbourne. Further Particulars. (Telegram to Echo.) Melbourne
The official reports of the accident furnished to the Minister show that it was attributable to the breaking of the tire of the front wheel of a first-class smoking carriage…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Railway Accident in Melbourne. (Telegram in Herald.) Melbourne
Melbourne has all day been in a state of great excitement over the terrible railway disaster. Nothing that has happened for a long time past has absorbed so much…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tramway Accidents. (From the Echo.)
The following is a return of the number and nature of accidents to life and limb which have occurred on the Government tramways from September 28, 1879, to August 15,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Serious Tram Collision. From Monday's Echo.)
About half-past three o'clock on Sunday afternoon, a collision of a somewhat serious nature occurred on the Randwick tramway. Two trams which were on the single line of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dreadful Accident—Three Women Drowned
The Kerang correspondent of the Argus gives particulars of the drowning of three women in Bar Creek, eight miles from Kerang. The victims were the wife and two daughters of Mr. W. Pippin, who…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining Accidents at Sandhurst. (From the Argus' Correspondent.) the Catherine Reef Fatality. Thursday Evening
The shocking fatality which occurred at the Catherine Reef United Mine, Eaglehawk, yesterday morning, by which James Davey and Thomas Lawry were killed, was partially…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Re-Animating the Apparently Drowned. (From the Argus, Oct. 6.)
The ship's company of H. M. C. S. Cerberus was mustered on the quarter-deck of that vessel at noon yesterday for the purpose of witnessing a demonstration of the Howard method of restoring the…
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On Saturday afternoon, Mr. J. J. Drinan, J.P., held a magisterial inquiry at St. Petrox, Irishtown, touching the death of Martin Moylan, aged 60 years…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Accident at Dawes' Point Baths. (From the Evening News.)
An inquest was held on Tuesday at the City Coroner's office, as to the cause of death of Ernest Davenport, an Englishman, aged 20, third officer of the Thessalus, now lying at the Central Wharf,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →[?]d Death by Drowning
[?]lancholy death by drowning occurred Hunter River, at West Maitland, on [?]ay afternoon. Mr. James S. O. Stanis[?]anager of Messrs. D. Cohen & Co.'s…
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