Alum Mountain Fatality. Tunnel Collapses
A Bulahdelah telegram states that a fatal Friday. While the men were working in the accident occurred at the Alumn Mountain on tunnel part of it fell in. One of the miners…
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Two Persons Drowned. Adelaide-Melbourne Express Cancelled. Melbourne; Friday Evening
It is raining in. torrents at Echu[?] and this morning the Murray River rose 11 feet in throe hours. It is now 30 feet above summer level, and still…
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An accident happened to a special train returning to Culcairn from the Corowa Show. The engine struck an obstruction on the line and caused the brake-van to leave the rails…
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A son of Mr J. W Lane, aged 14 residing at McGran[?] Estate, was the victim of an explosion yesterday forenoon It seems the lad picked up a…
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Misses Maud and Ethel Ferguson, the latter of whom had a baby in her arms, were driving in a sulky near the Moree railway station on Wednesday…
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A schoolboy named Guthrie Lane met with a painful accident at Cessnock. He picked up a dynamite cartridge, which exploded in his hand, part of the thumb and the top of the first finger…
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This morning shortly before 11 o'clock a lad named [?]rank Moylan, who was on the bank of the river near the rear of the Carrington Hotel, had his attention aroused by some…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Schoolboy Mischief. Six Girls Drowned. London. Sunday Afternoon
While school girls belonging to a riverside excursion, were enjoying themselves below the weir at Offenbach, Germany, some school boys mischievously opened a sluice, with the result…
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William Hicks, employed at Fraser's sawmills, Grafton, had his arm severed by a vertical saw this morning, and his leg also almost cut off…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Late News by Wire Sydney, Wednesday afternoon. Collision at Werris Creek
A collision between two locomotives occurred in the station yards at Werris Creek this morning. The engines were not seriously damaged. The men aboard them escaped injury…
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Two splendid automobiles, some porcolain vases, and a forged title of nobility, were the stock-in-trade of a cleverly-organised band of swindlers in Paris, who [?]…
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A young lady named Miss Eckford, a resident of East Maitland, met with a painful accident this morning. It appears she was walking on the asphalt footway leading to the courthouse, when…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Late News by Cable Disaster at Monte Video. Steamer Cut in Two. Eighty People Drowned. London, Aug. 25
A terrible disaster occurred in Monte Video, [?] The Argentine steamer Colombia, [?] with excursionists from Monte Video, [?]to attend the national fetes of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alum Mountain Fatality Verdict of Accident[?] Death. Sate Quarry Inspection Urged
The inquest was resumed on Tuesday last concerning the men killed in the Alum Tunnel collapse. Cassidy, forman or the Alum…
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Shortly after leaving quarantine this morning the Kronpriz Wilhelm was rammed by the steamer Crown of Castile, which tore a hole 15ft. by 10ft. in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Kurri Sensation. Shooting Accident. Kurri Kurri
About 1. p.m. yesterday a shooting accident occurred in Mr. W. Codner's hairdressing saloon at Kurri Kurri, which might have had a serious result. During…
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At Deep Creek, Weston, this afternoon, two men were working on a bridge, when a train came along and ran over them. One man was killed, and the other seriously injured…
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The inquest concerning the deaths of Stephen Crockford and Charles Keel, the Victims of the mining accident, commenced on Monday…
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A sad accident occurred at Nabiuc on Sunday, when a child granddaughter of Mrs. Murray, of Bunyah, was standing at a kitchen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tram Fatality. (By Telegraph). Sydney
A one-armed man named Arthur Ste vens an agent, died in the hospital to day from a fractuerd skull, after being twice knocked down by trams. Last…
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