Railway Accident
Another railway smash occurred on Sunday night. A special goods train ran into an empty passenger train waiting on the up line. Two carriages were…
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Superstitions Connected with Drowning
SOME years ago a man fell overboard from a Russian ship in Leith docks. The crew, says Lieut. Basset, tried to rescue him at first, but when they found that he…
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A TERRIBLE railway collision occurred in Indiana, United States, yesterday. The express train ran into a luggage train, and four carriages, including a sleeping car,…
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A youth named Leopold Ogilvie, residing in Paddington, was drowned yesterday morning through the upsetting of a canvas dingy in the harbour…
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Mr. Palmer, manager and engineer of the Ice Company, was showing some ladies over the works last evening, when the dress of one of the ladies was caught…
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Me. H. Crofton Stavely, police magistrate at Gippsland, was drowned on Saturday while crossing the Livingstone Creek, near Omeo…
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Yesterday evening a collision occurred in the channel between the Rotterdam steamer Schotien, bound for New York, and another steamer unknown. The…
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A fettler named Robert Smith was knocked down by some trucks at Darling Harbour this morning and killed. Railway Collision…
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The ship Catherine, bound for Sydney, collided with the P. and O. Co.'s steamer Clyde, off Dover, during a fog. The Catherine sank, but her crew were saved…
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Mr. W. Ridley, a Government clerk, who was visiting the Jenolan Caves, fell over a precipice seventy feet high, fracturing his skull in several places, and…
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WEDNESDAY'S Echo says :--Although a close and daily watch has been kept for signs of the remains of the unfortunate young man, Thomas Cochrane, who was seized by a shark whilst…
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A young man named Maylin, a resident of Gordon, was drowned yesterday, while bathing at the head of Middle Harbour…
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A boy who has not been identified jumped from the platform of an American railway carriage at the Ashfield station this morning, and in doing so came…
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The body of Mr. J. L. Wickers, traveller for Messrs. Hudson Bros., who was drowned while crossing a creek near Yass during a terrific hailstorm, on Monday…
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