Railway Collision
The Natal mail train collided with a goods train near Heidelberg last night, and, as a result, two children were killed and eleven other passengers were seriously…
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Accidents at Steel Works
Two accidents, neither of a fatal nature, occurred at the steel works last night. The worst one befel an employee, who came in contact with an electric wire. The shock…
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John Byrne, a miner, about 50 years of age, died in the Kurri Hospital at about 5.30 this morning as a result of injuries received in the Stanford-Merthyr colliery on Tuesday evening…
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Sergeant Erie Deane in a final flight at Brooklands for his pupil's certificate on attempting a sharp spiral descent fell from a height of 1000 feet and was killed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Warehouse Fire. Fireman Drowned. London, Wednesday evening
A fire occurred in a warehouse in Liverpool, and a thousand bales of cotton were rained. A fireman was missing and upon a search…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aerial Flight. Three People Injured at the White City
An accident occurred at the White City, Sydney, on Wednesday night. resulting in three women being injured. It seems that a hont on the elevated…
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A four-year-old son of Mrs. Winter was playing in the yard of Mr. J. Gregory's residence at Kurri yesterday, when he felt off a block of wood and broke his arm. It was a…
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A sulky accident, involving the death of one woman and the serious injury of another, occurred near Store Crack in the Orange district on…
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St. Kilda was the scene of a terrible fatality on Friday morning, when five men were drowned through a boat capsizing in a squall. All efforts at rescue were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Aviation Fatality. Berlin
The wing of an aeroplane at Durden snapped. The machine fell, the engine exploded, and the aviator. Herr Reichelt, was killed…
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A motor car capsized, killing Samuel M'Frederick, sawmill worker. Joseph Benson and Frank Porter were seriously injured…
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A boy named Claude Digby, 13 years of age, had a particularly narrow escape from serious injury in a shooting accident, at Hinton yesterday. His elder brother,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Trains in Collision. Driver and Fireman Killed. Appalling Disaster Averted. London
The Aberdeen express, while going downhill at the rate of a mile a minute, owing to a corner did not see a goods train until it was impossible to apply the brakes. The train…
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Ernie Barber, a young man, had a rib broken while riding at Quipolly. The accident was caused through the girth breaking. Barber was brought to the hospital,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →English Railway Accident Express and Goods Engine. (By Cable.) London
The London to Aberdeen express, while travelling at 60 miles an hour, ran into the engine of a goods train near Kircaldy (Scotland)…
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On Saturday afternoon the little child of Mr and Mrs T. B. Ryan, of Yorkstreet, fractured her arm rather badly at the elbow through falling off a sofa…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Accident at Hillges Fall of 400 Feet
A shocking fatal accident happen Hillgrove yesterday. Mr. Theo. [?] employee of Mr. W. Curtis, at [?] who had been staying with his [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rouchel. Accident to Mr. William Brooker
Mr. Wm. Brooker, of Studieigh. met with a nasty buggy accident on Tuesday last. He was driving along the Davis Creek road. in…
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The Muswellbrook-Merriwa railway, at present in course of construction, was the scene of a serious accident abot 9 o'clock on Wednesday…
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London, Wednesday.—Further details of the collision between an express and a goods train at Bruntisland, in Scotland, are to hand…
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