Racing Accident
The Maribyrnong racecourse was the scenes of a fatal accident on Saturday. The starters in the Hunter’s Steeplechase included a grey gelding named Atlantic, who was made…
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Sad Drowning Fatality at Balranald
On Sunday afternoon last the police received information that a woman was lying dead in a water-hole near the Chinsman's garden, and on proceeding tu the spot found…
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A sad drowning accident occurred on 5th inst. at Nathalia, the victim being a young married woman named Mrs. Ross, the wife of Mr. W. Ross, of that town Mrs. Ross,…
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The Bendigo Advertiser reports an accident, which might have had much more serious results, happened at the New Chum United mine to a miner named John Tresize, a…
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The Forbes Times says :—“It is said that misfortunes never come along and that in the case of fatalities one death of the kind is generally followed by two others. And sure…
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Since the Carcoar tragedy, Mr. C. W. Jenkins, road superintendent at Inverell, has kept a cocked revolver under his pillow. On retiring to bed on Monday night the revolver, slipped from beneath…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Terrible Railway Accident. an Excursion Train in Collision. 150 Persons Killed and Injured. London, October 13
Intelligence has been received of a terrible railway accident in the United States. Two trains, one of them an excursion train, came into collision at Jackson, in the State of…
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A dreadful accident happened on board the pilot steamer Llewellyn (says the Maryborough Chronicle, Q), a young lad named Stanley Burn being the unfortunate victim. The…
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We (Narandera Argus) are indebted to Mr. W J. Elworthy toe the following:—A very distressing accident occurred at Benerembah on Sunday by which two children named Ada and William…
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The body of a man was on Friday night discovered lying on the rocks near Steel Point, Vaucluse, by a fisherman. Constable Cubis, of Double Bay, was acquainted with the…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Railway Collision in Detroit. the Wrecked Carriages on Fire Twenty-five Passeengers Killed. London, October 20
A disastrous railway collision occurred to-day at Detroit, in Michigan, where the Australian Eleven concluded their cricket match yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Shocking Boating Accident in New Zealand
A shocking bo[?] occurred on the upper reaches of tho Waitemata last Friday. Mrs. Baillie, the wife of a selector at Henderson, accompanied by her son and daughter and…
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A MAGISTERIAL inquiry was held at Benerembah by Mr Pearce on Tuesday touching the death of two children named Hannah Ada Peters and William James Peters who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Accident at Michigan. Twenty-five Persons Drowned. London, November 8
A disastrous accident has happened near Detroit, in the state of Michigan. Two lake steamers came into collision, with the result that 25 persons were drowned…
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An elderly woman named Mrs. Kelly was found drowned in a well at the rear of her house in Warrnambool on Tuesday morning. She rose at about 6 o’clock, informing her daughters that…
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A shocking accident occurred at Port Pirie. Adelaide, on Monday, resulting in the death of Miss Walker, sister of Dr. Walker. The deceased accompanied the [?] on a visit to…
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A lad named George [?], son of Mr. James Jennings of North [?]on, was admitted to the Mooroopna Hospital on Saturday suffering from severe [?] to his right…
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A gun accident occurred at North Murchison on Saturday morning, by which Albert Langdon, a child about three years of age, was accidentally shot dead by his brother David,…
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A young woman named Coutts fell from a runaway horse at Onehunga, near Auckland, and, striking a telegraph post with terrific force, had her nose cut eff, her eyesight destroyed, and…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Fatal Lift Accident. Death of Mr. William Gore Daly. London, November 1
Mr. William Gore Daly, a grandson of the late Sir Dominic Daly, who was Governor of South Australia from 1862 to 1868, has been killed at an hotel in Paris by failing down…
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