School Boy Drowned
A boy aged 10 years and named Donald Shalder was drowned in the Clifton Gardens swimming baths yesterday. Deceased, who…
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Trains in Collision
A collision occurred between two trains at Tonbridge (Eng.),when three passengers were killed and twelve injured. An inspector smartly…
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Fourteen men have been drowned by a sudden inrush of water at the new Victoria Dock, Birkenhead. Five other had miraculous escapes…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible Disaster. on the Midland Railway. Expresses in Collision. Wreckage Ablaze. 7 Killed, 20 Injured. Terrible Scenes
Not since the Bullhouse accident, near Penistone, in 1884, when 24 persons were killed and 60 injured by the breaking of a crank-axle of a fast…
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Whilst riding The Dodger in the Hurdle Race at Shepparton (Vic.), yesterday, Mr. J. Mackinnon, the well-known amateur rider, was…
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On Thursday last, whilst Mr. S. W. Dark and Mr. Wallace Lowe, of Clarence Town were returning home from the Gloucester Show they had an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Terrible Disaster. on the Midland Railway. Expresses in Collision. Wreckage Ablaze. 7 Killed, 20 Injured. Terrible Scenes
Not since the Bullhouse accident, near Penistone, in 1884, when 24 persons were killed and 60 injured by the breaking of a crank-axle of a fast…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shocking Railway Accident. London
While the Boston express was travelling at the rate of 40 miles an hour it clashed through a street window into the station at Montreal. The train…
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Patrick Fit[?]gerald, a commercial traveller, has been drowned in Newcastle Harbor…
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A coal train consisting of 26 trucks broke away at Newcastle Dyke and crashed into the dead end. Thirteen trucks were derailed and smashed…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Gored By A Cow. Boy Terribly Injured
Willie Burgess (10), was gored by a cow at Louth Park, West Maitland, on Sunday afternoon, and terribly injured. One of the animal's horns…
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A boy named Sydney Reynolds met with his death in a remarkable manner at Footscray. (Vic.) last night. He and a companion were playing…
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At Molong yesterday a young woman named Elsie Wilson was terribly burned. Her clothes caught alight and she was practically…
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A huge frame building in course of construction at Geelong was blown down by a sudden squall of wind. Workmen were scattered all over the…
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Bert Carliss, raiding at Stanmore, was experimenting with a gasometer, when it exploded and a piece of piping knocked out his right eye and…
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The mail steamer Ortona, a her homeward voyage, when about 20 miles south of Eddystone Lighthouse, in the English Channel, collided with…
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A drowning fatality occurred at Wollongong on Tuesday morning, by which Rev. Father Murray lost his life. He left the presbytery to go for…
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The Rev. Father Murray was drowned whilst surf bathing at Wollongong. He was buried yesterday, and the funeral procession…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mr. Willis Injured
The first accounts stating that Mr. W. N. Willis, author of "The Life of Crick," had been found in a paddock with, gunshot wounds around…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Educated Horse Burnt to Death. Thinking Mare a Victim of Railway Collision
Seven post office clerks and train hands were killed or burnt to death in a collision which took place on the Pennsylvania railroad, at Demar,…
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