An Accidental Rhyme
In the old days of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, an actor named Dewar went one morning to the premises of a publican named Scott, patronised by the…
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A Terrible Accident
A TERRIBLE accident occurred at Reids's saw mills, at the Bluff. Orara River, Grafton, on Wednesday morning week. One of the workmen, upwards of 60 years of age, was…
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A shocking burning accident occurred at Tonnabutta on Saturday morning, a little girl, 2½ years old, losing her life. While her parents…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Local News. a Frightful Accident
The other week a frightful accident happened at Reid's sawmill at Glenreagh, about 30 miles from Grafton. An old employee of the mill, while…
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A baggy, fall of women and children, was ran into by a train at Kalgoorlie. Several persons were seriously injured,…
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Last Thursday William Hein, one of the workmen at the New Entrance, accidentally fell from the top of the quarry and broke his leg above the ankle. The injured man was…
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Forty persons were leaning upon the wire railings round a cycle track in Berlin yesterday, a storm occurred, and the railing was struck by…
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Last Monday two sons of Mr. W. H. Nalder, of Warnetoo, were out in the bush shooting when they became separated. Thinking be saw a wallaby one fired, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Accident near Paris. 17 Killed and 73 INJURED. London, Aug. 7
FURTHER particulars of the terrible railway disaster near Paris state that two express excursion trains left Paris at an interval of five minutes of each other. While the first train was stopping at Juvisy, 12…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another American Catastrophe. Twenty Excursionists Drowned. London, August 7
OWING to the snapping of a gang plank, two hundred excursionists who were going on board a steamboat at Mount Desert Island, in the State of Maine (U.S.), fell into the water, twenty being drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Struck by Lightning. Nine Soldiers Injured, and a Pier Set on Fire. London, August 6
WHILE marching from Limerick to Thurles yesterday nine of the men of the 2nd battalion of the Cheshire Regiment were injured by lightning. The legs of a sergeant were paralysed, but he has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Alpine Accidents. Four Persons Killed. London, Aug. 6
A NUMBER of fatal Alpine accidents are reported. A young Englishman, the son of Sir J. H. Bergne, of the Foreign Office, while climbing the Schreakhorn horn, in the Bernese Oberland, fell with his guides…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Strange Railway Accident. London, August 3
WHILE the Manchester express was passing at full speed through Greetland Station to-day one of the large driving wheels became detached, and leaving the line traversed the station-master's office and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Alpine Accidents. a Marvellous Escape. London, August 7
LATER reports state that the accident to Mr. Bergne and his guides, while climbing the Shreckhorn, is the Bernese, Oberland, near Grindelwald, Switzerland, by which one of the guides was killed, was caused…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another Mountain Fatality. Admiral Bridge's Sister Killed. London, Aug. 11
MISS Christina Bridge, a sister of Vice-Admiral Bridge, late Commander in Chief-in-Chief on the Australian Station, while touring in the Alps, near Zural, Switzerland, was stung…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Strange Case of Accidental Death
A man went to bed excessively drunk, and was found dead in the morning. He natural conclusion was, of course, that he had died from alcoholic poisoning, but the…
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While a train was crossing a bridge over a flooded river at Santiago, Chili, the structure collapsed and the train was precipitated into the raging…
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ON Saturday last, about 11 a.m., a little girl, aged 8 years, daughter of Mr. Walter Cause, of Cattai Creek, was drowned. It appears that while crossing the stream in a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident to the Burrawong. Macleay River, Monday, Aug. 14
THE steamer Burrawong, while crossing the bar at noon yesterday, shipped a heavy sea, almost filling the fore part of the ship to the rail, and causing her to broach to. She…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Orizaba in Collision. London, August 18
A COLLISION has occurred off the New Port lighthouse in the Red Sea, between the steamer Clan Mackay, of the Clan line, and the Orient R.M.S. Orizaba, bound for Australia…
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