Terrible Colliery Accident. Eight Men Suffocates. Sydney. Friday, December 4
The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 December 1896 · page 3
[?]arful calamity has occurred at the Stockton [?] near Newcastle, where two miners were [?]ted on Wednesday morning. Yesterday [?]be funeral of the victims, nine of the miners…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sad Fatality at Hillston. a Youth drowned in the Lachlan HILLSTON
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 8 December 1896 · page 2
A painful sensation was created in town on receipt of intelligence that the eldest son of Mr Alexander Cumming, of Tocabil, aged 19, had been found drowned in the Lachlan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Accident
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 December 1896 · page 29
A fatal mining accident happened at Grenfell on Saturday morning. Fred. Nicholls and Robt. Matthews were employed in the Star of the Gully, at a…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Fatal Accident. Mr. R. C. Muibhead Killed
The Pastoral Times · Saturday 12 December 1896 · page 2
A fatal accident occurred on Tuesday afternoon last to Mr B. G. Muirhead, the son of a well-known resident of the Deniliquin district. The deceased was returning from Deniliquin with an empty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents That Prevented Tragedies
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 15 December 1896 · page 4
The owner of a large mansion in the provinces was aroused from his sleep one night by hearing a loud noise downstairs. Rousing his servants, he proceeded to search…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gun Accident
Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 16 December 1896 · page 2
At Molong, a young man named Barber, son of a farmer at Bocoble, while out shooting bares, seated him self on a fence to have a rest, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drowning Case
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 December 1896 · page 29
The body of a man named George Wilson was found in the Mordialloc Creek on Wednesday last. Wilson visited the Bridge Hotel at Mordialloc on…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Found Drowned
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 December 1896 · page 29
Mr. Sweetland, coroner, held an inquest at Merrulebale on the body of Thomas Topping, 11 years of age, who had been found drowned. The evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Drowning Case at Yamba
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 December 1896 · page 29
A Yamba correspondent writes:—"A sad fatality occurred here last week, when Captain O'Mara, of the river steamer Woolwich, was drowned. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Shocking Street Accident. Terrible Injuries to a Young Lady
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 December 1896 · page 21
The hill in Wellington-parade, Fast Melbourne, the scene on wednesday morning of a shocking tramway accident, in which Gertrude Snodgrass, sister of Lady Clarke, was terribly…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Fatal Accident
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 December 1896 · page 24
A man named Thomas Masters or Marsden—there appears to be some uncertainty about the name—was accidentally killed yesterday. The deceased, who is a fisherman living near…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. Dynamite Accident
Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 23 December 1896 · page 2
A boy 9 years old, son of Mr. Elliott of Inverell, found a plug of dynamite and an old cartridge cap. He held both in one held and applied the cap…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Collision in the Harbour
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 December 1896 · page 28
Early on Friday afternoon the steam collier Merksworth, of 200 tons, fully laden with coal and the property of the Wallarah Coal Company, was sunk in the…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →New Guinea. a Serious Accident
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 December 1896 · page 24
The Merrie England arrived at Cooktown on Tuesday morning from Samarai. On her arrival at the mouth of the Masua River the launch proceeded about 65 miles up the river…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Train Accident
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 December 1896 · page 28
A cattle train, while proceeding along the Esk (Queensland) railway on 17th inst., ran off the line at a curve on a steep incline. The cattle trucks shot over on…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →The District. Carrathool. Sad Drowning Fatality
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 29 December 1896 · page 2
A sad drowning fatality took place on Xmas. Day, when a son of Mr. P. Carroll, of this town, was accidentally drowned in a tank on Howlong station whilst bathing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE. Tuesday. Drowning Case
Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 30 December 1896 · page 2
Mr. James Watson has been drown [?] at Tungamah whilst swimming a[?] the Murray…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Accident
Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 30 December 1896 · page 2
A train proceeding over Trestle bridge, Birmingham, State of Alabama, America, was precipitated into a gorge below, 177 persons being killed and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Realism in Texas. an Exhibition Railway Accident
Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 30 December 1896 · page 4
The Texans usually come to the front of they have the least chance given them. Perhaps it is in their amusements and exciting entertainments that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Shooting Accident
The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 30 December 1896 · page 2
On Thursday the Police Magistrate held an inquiry at the residence of Mr. W. G. Butterworth, as to the cause of the death of William Spencer Butterworth, aged ten…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →