A Sad Fatality
ON Saturday night as the excursion steamer Cora was returning from Raymond Terrace to Clarence Town a very old resident named Valentine Bridekirk. who was aboard when…
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The Inverell Fatality. Clothes Lines As Lightning Conductors
IN connection with the fatality which occurred on Saturday at Invervell. when Mr and Mrs Jos. Locke was struck and killed by lightning, an examination of…
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A DISASTROUS collision occurred yesterday off the coast of Portugal. The steamer Hercules and Deronda collided with such force that the Hercules…
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The bodies of two of Gurney'e children, who were drowned last Tuesday were recovered yesterday, being those of Harry (aged 9) and Lizzie (5 years. The boy had been a cripple all his life with…
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A BOATING accident, resulting in the death of two young men, occurred in Wellington Harbor on Wednesday. A boat containing three people was capsized. The occupants…
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ON Wednesday morning the son of Mr D. M'Kendry, stockman at Nootsfield, saw the legs of a man on the river bank near White's Fall, The boy spoke to his father and…
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PARTICULARS have been received of a terrible tragedy which has been enacted at Eidsvold, A man named Charles Jones found William Somers in bed with his (Jones) wife. Jones…
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A child of three years of age, belonging to Mr P. Nowland, grocer, of Balmain, was scalded to death this morning by falling into a boiler of hot water…
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ON Wednesday afternoon Mr Alfred Vindin, J.P. coroner, resumed the inquiry, at his office, High-street, West Maitland, into the circumstances attending the death of the…
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A SHOCKING accident occurred during a torchlight procession of the Fire Brigades of the district for the benefit of the local brigade at Malvern, Victoria, on Wednesday…
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ON Wednesday morning the body of a man was found on the railway line near Teralba. The body was much mutilated, and was evidently that of a man who had been run over…
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An alarming collision occurred in the Irish Channel late on Thursday night last week between the London and North-Western Railway Company's splendid passenger steamer Banshee, plying between…
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A fatal accident, under very painful circumstances, occurred at Malvern on Wednesday night during a torchlight procession, which was being conducted by the members of the fire brigades in and…
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SHORTLY after noon on Saturday an accident happened to some boys in Blackwattle Bay, Glebe, when one of them was drowned. Four boys, Michael Moloney, Patrick Smith,…
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A man named Patrick Redmond was killed last night through falling down a flight of stairs…
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LAST evening a son of Mr Bartop's aged or 9 years, fell off a verandah and broke one of his thighs. Dr Read was sent for and attended to the sufferer…
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A SAD case of drowning occurred on Wednesday night at Jindera. An elderly woman, the wife of a farmer, left her home for a few minutes, and not returning as expected…
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AN accident of a terrible character occurred shortly after five o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, at the works of New South Wales [?]ee and field Storage Co, Harris-street, Pyrment,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Great Disaster in Glasgow. Fall of a Wall at a Carpet Factory. 30 Operatives Killed and 18 INJURED
LONDON, Saturday.—A wall of a new building in course of erection, connected with the Axminster carpet and rug manufactory, Greenhead, Glasgow, owned by Messrs James…
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A TERRIBLE accident occurred about 4 o'clock on Monday morning, st [?]loane and Scotchman's claim, Stawell. As two young men, Charles Dooley and John Kick, were…
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