Sinsation, Fatality & Crime
A miraculous escape from death is reported from To Rengi (N.Z.) Waterfalls. A Maori while eel-fishing went near the edge, and was carried over by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accidents, 1895
331 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 17
Sensation, Fatality, & Crime
At Gladstone, Wairarapa (N.Z.), recently, during an electric storm, the centre horse of a plough team of three was struck down by lightning, and its…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drowned Aty Belford. Coroner's Inquest
MR H. PINCHIN, District Coroner, and a jury of 12 held an inquest at Mr G. Hunt's, Belford, yesterday on the body of George Gane, which had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident to Mr Gladstome. Temperary Blindness. [By Cable.] London
MR GLADSTONE stumbled over a piece of furniture whilst at Hawarden Castle and struck his head, slightly cutting his forehead. The immediate cause of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sensation, Fatality, & Crime
An avalanche has destroyed part of the village of Orlu, in the South of France. Sixteen buildings were demolished, and 15 lives were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Fatal Harbour Collision Verdict of Manslaughter. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
At the adjourned inquest on the bolies of Elizabeth Egan and Leila Ward, the two victims of the Princess Awbina harbour collision, was resumed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sensation, Fatality, & Crime
A four-year-old, daughter of Goorge Baker was playing in the garden on Sunday afternoon when her mother saw her stamping on a black snake…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shocking Railway Accident
A shocking railway accident happened on Thursday on the railway line near the Melbourne Cricket Club's ground, between Melbourne and Richmond, resulting in the loss of two lives. Two men named…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Terrible Colliery Accident. a Pit Flooded 100 Men Entemined. [By Cable.] London, Monday
A SHOCKING colliery disaster has occurred at Hanley in Staffordshire, England. A rush of water happened while a number of miners were at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Serious Fall. Accident to a Somnambulist. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
A SERIOUS accident happened during last night. A woman named Aunie Groeock, aged 80, while in a state of somnambulism, fell over a balcony of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sensation, Fatality, Crime
While the R.M.S. Himataya was in harbor at Albany, West Australia, on Saturday, a saltwater pipe from the condensing engine buret, causing a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Strange Accident. a Narrow Escape
AN extraordinary accident, accompanied by a marvellous escape, occurred at the Warragul Butter Factory, in Victoria, last week. One of the employes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidentally Shot Dead
A LAT aged 14, the son of Mr. A. Brindle, a hotelkeeper, at Gungal, 16 miles from Memwa, was accidentally shot dead on Sunday by Rebert Cafe,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sensation,fatality, & Crime
A man named James Drummound, who had recently been employed as a clerk in the National Bank at Abbotsford, drowned himself i. the Yarra…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Floods in the Hunter. Alarm in Maitland. Stoppage of Railway Traffic. Washaways at Tarro. Landslip at Awaba Accidents and Fatalities. [By Our Own Reporter.]
NEXT in magnitude to the Rood of March, 1893, that which is only really subsiding as these words are being written holds the record…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sunsation, Fatality, & Crime
During a thunderetorm on Friday evening at Murrumburrah a flash of lightning killed nino horses out of 18. They wore drawing two waggons of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drowning. at Wang Wauk
News of a very lamentable case of drowning reached Taree from Wauk Wauk river on Monday. A man named John Munro, son of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sensation, Fatality, & Crime
Startling developments may be expected during the next few days in connection with the alleged malpractise cases which are said to have recently…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fatal Collision at Sea 234 Persons Browned
INTELIGENCE has been received of a shocking maritime disaster involving great loss of life. A fishing smack arrived at Lowestoft on the east coast…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatality at Tamworth. a Drapsr'S Sudden Death. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
MR T. A. WOOLCOTT, a draper, of Peel-street, Tamworth took ill last night during a local amateur performance, and died a few hours after…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →