Accidents at Conargo
A narrow escape from drowning occurred recently at Conargo just after the children had left the public school. While some boys were on an old bridge on the Billabong going home,…
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Fatal Accident
An inquest was held before the District Coroner, Dr. Noyer, at tho Dublin Hotel, on Wednesday, touching the death of Mr Neil Mackenzie who died on Tuesday morning from injuries received through…
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A Deniliquin telegram, dated Saturday, runs as follows :—" This morning a poor man named Ludnow came in from Moraga Station to the Deniliquin Hospital, with his children…
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An inquest was held on Saturday last at the Deniliquin District Hospital before dr. Noyes touching the death of a boy named William Hudson Ludlow, about ten years of age, who was killied on…
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ON Monday evening last a boy named henry crisp, three years and ten months old, who resided with his parents at wahguyah, did not return to his home at…
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A telegram from Birregurra, Victoria, dated Monday, runs as follows :—“ All the lowlying land in this district is flooded, and a very melancholy occurrence is reported to have…
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In regard to the late collision at Bathurst, the medical report states that all the persons injured are progressing favorably towards recovery, and nothing of a very serious nature is…
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At 4 o’clock on Saturday morning, whilst the Orient liner Austral was lying snugly at anchor in Neutral Bay, receiving coal from a tender alongside, she suddenly listed over, and…
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In consequence of the injuries sustained by many of the passengers who were in the mail train which recently ran into a goods train at Bathurst, a number of claims for compensation…
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The following particulars are taken from the Age respecting the collision reported by telegram on Monday morning, and circulated by us as an "extraordinary":—…
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Mr. George S. Taylor, in the employ of Messrs. Charles Andrew and Co., warehousemen, Flinders lane, states :—" I was a traveller by the special train which left Box Hill a few…
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A railway accident of a more appalling nature and productive of more serious results than even the Jolimont disaster, occurred on the Hawthorn line of railway a few miles out of…
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A sad case of drowning occurred at St. Arnaud on Saturday afternoon in a dam belonging to the Wilson’s hill Company. Three boys, named respectively Thomas Windlow,…
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A few days since (says the Hillston News) the lifeless body of an aged man named John Cooper was found in a nude state, drifting past the woolscouring works at Uabba station, on…
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On Sunday evening, about 6 o’clock, a son of Mr. King’s, about 7 years old, was fishing in the Wodonga Creek, when he slipped in and was being carried away by the current…
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It is stated in the Ballarat Star that during the flood in Elizabeth-street, Melbourne on the 5th inst, a case of drowning was averted by the plucky act of a pedestrian. At the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Latest by Telegraph The Creswick Mining Accident. Melbourne, Thursday Night
Only five men have been brought up alive out of the 27 imprisoned in the Amsterdam Mine. One of them is not expected to live. The bodies…
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A sad accident occurred at the Seymour railway station last Saturday night. A cleaner named Hollis was crossing the lines between the points and the engine-shed, and found a…
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The Yass Courier relates that a man named Thomas Fahey, who was the foreman of a number of fettlers on the railway line, was killed by the mail-train running over him…
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The Wangaratta correspondent of the Argus reports that on Friday last a fatal accident resulting in the death of two persons occurred there. Two men and a boy named Denis…
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