Shocking Powder Accident
A shocking powder accident has occurred. A barge laden with powder was being towed to the month of the Thames where a shell exploded and completely wrecked the vessel. The wreckage…
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Collision at Sea. a Terrible Disaster
LONDON, Wednesday Night.— News has been received of a terrible shipping disaster in the North Sea. The screw steamer Elbe, owned by…
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A farmer named Walsh was found lying dead in a paddock at Sale (Vie:), and must have been attacked by a boar, which inflicted such frightful injuries…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Melbourne Dust Storm. Two Clergyman Injured. [By Telegraph.] Melebourne
YESTERDAY afternoon during a terri[?] dust storm two barriers protecting the broken portion of the parapet of the Queen's Bridge were blown from…
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A serious accident happened to a young man named Jeff Samson at Bungendore on Wednesday, While on a load of manure he threw the…
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A terrible shipping disaster occurred last week in the North Sea. Latest cablegrams state that the North German Lloyd mail steamer Elbe came into collision with the steamer Craithie, of…
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Eight anarchists, who had been convicted of complicity in dynamite outrages, have been sentenced at Liege in Belgium, to heavy terms of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Electric Echoes. Sydney, Tuesday. Fruitless Search for the Drowned
The Water Police continued their search to-day for the bodies of the young telegraph messengers, Lawson and Morrison, drowned in George's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The World to of Destroyed November 13, 1899. Prediction of Professor Falb, of Vicuna Collision with a Comet will Terminate all Things Mundane
The records indicate that people have been looking for the end of the world at intervals ever since the world began, and predictions of this…
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Great damage has been caused by the severity of the frost in Italy. The troops have been ordered out to shoot wolves in cousequence of the…
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A telegram from Hobart states that the steamer Pukaki, 1400 tons, whilst entering the Mersey River at Launceston, Tasmanis, struck a…
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A fatal case of snakebite isreported from Inverary, near Bungouia. A little boy named Armit, about S years of age, was bitten near the ankle by a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An Unfortunate Picnic Sad Accidents. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
A LAD named William Hancock, aged 12, visiting Parramatla Park to-day with a Sunday School picnic from St. Peters, went to bathe in the river, and…
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The case against John Swann, charged with having attempted to murder Hugh Campbell, a prominent Auckland (N.Z.) solicitor, was…
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A telegram received by the Postmaster-General of South Australia from Robe says that the Kingston fishing-boat Starling was ew[?]ped…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Accident in Victoria Engine and Eight Carriages Derailed [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
THE engine and eight carriages of the 7.50 a.m. train from Melbourne to Sale and Bairnsdale left the rails at the points at Jefferson siding near…
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Three little boys riding in a dray [?]borough, on the west coast [?] New Zealand, began struggling for [?]ession of the r[?] The horse…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sad Death by Drowning. a Man Dives Off the Belmore Bridge
During the aquatic carnival this afternoon an unfortunate occurrence took place. Thomas Murray, a well-known man about town, jumped off the railing of the Belmore Bridge, into…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Fatal Lift Accident. Fall of Forty-five Feet. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
ERNEST FOR[?] aged nine, sou of a storekeeper at Young, while accompanying his aunt, who was being shown over the post-office, was going…
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Another fatal case of snakebite, being the second in the Goulburn district within last few weeks, is reported. The victim was a little boy…
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