A Lift Accident
A boy, named Joseph Clark, fell down a lift well at Wright's boot factory, this morning, sustaining shocking injuries, including a lacerated scalp wound and a fractured leg. He was conveyed to the…
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Sensation, Fatality & Crime
Two prisoners named George Peasley and Henry T. Hunter escaped from Trial Bay prison on Saturday last. The former was undergoing a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fatal Lift Accident. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
A boy named Joseph C. Lark, 13 years of age, residing with his parents at Ferndale-street, Newtown, fell down the lift well at Wright's boot…
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Lieutenant Heyman and six of the craw belonging to H.M.S. Satellite, one of the vessels of the Pacific Squadron, have been drowned off the coast of Alaska, while attempting to rescue two sailors,…
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The continued drought in India ha damaged the crops, and grain riots have occurred among the natives in some centres…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Cyclist Injured
Mr Lowes, chemist, of Branzton, had the misfortune to encounter a mishap while while out on his "wheel" on Wednesday. He was riding down the Red Hill, near Greta,…
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A terrible accident occurred on Friday to Augustus Ford, a miner, resident at East Orange. He was driving a horse attached to a spring cart on the Clifton Grove estate, when the harness broke, and…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Sad Drowning Fatal
A TERRIBLE drowning fatality [?] in the Swan River near Perth [?] on Sunday evening last, shortly had [?] 5 o'clock. A party, consistihat, [?]…
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A serious accident happened at the queen Central mine, Charters Towers, a Saturday morning. Thomas Little was repairing the knocker line when…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Serious Bicycle Accident. a Clerk Injured. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
WHILE riding a bicycle along the Waverley Road this morning, a clerk named William Pidgeon, 23 years of age, collided with a vehicle and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Carriage Accident. [By Cable.] London
MR HENRY BYRON REED, M.P. for Bradford, died from injuries received in a carriage accident…
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FOLLOWING the lines of other colonial legislation, the Government has carried through the Assembly a bill of one clause, limiting the amount which any one person can recover…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tram Accident
A schoolboy named Alfred Grey, aged nine, was knocked down by a tram in Oxford—street to-day, and received serious injuries to the skull. He was taken to the hospital…
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The notorious character "Slippery Jack," who is undergoing a sentence of seven years, was brought before the Bathurst Circuit Court on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Compensation for Railway Accidents
FOLLOWING the lines of other colonial legislation, the Government has carried through the Assembly a bill of one clause, limiting the amount which any one person can recover due to the carelessness or…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible Blasting Accident
On Thursday evening, 1st, a man named John Cawthorne was the victim of a terrible blasting accident at Coolongolook. He was employed on George Neil's contract road making, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Accident to a Wedding Party
On August 10th a shocking accident befell a wedding party at Walham Green. The bridegroom, Mr Thomas Fenwick-Sims, of 22, Sharrolds-road,…
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The body of a young woman named Shine Stalley was found in a well at Marryatville, near Adelaide. Her mother died recently, and it is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Terrible Detonator Accident
A terrible accident occurred at St. Mary's, near Penrith, to day, to a boy named Tolhurst, aged 12 years. He picked up a dynamite cap in the…
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Forty gunners, forming part of the crew of the Spanish cruiser Alfonso XIII., mutined at Ferrol on the Spanish coast, and tried to seize one…
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