Fatal Sewee Accident. Sydney. Thursday Night
A SHOCKING accident occurred this afternoon in a sewer at Marrickville. A man named Patrick Peefy was killed owing to a charge he was putting in suddenly…
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Fatal Cycling Accident
William M'Farlane, a railway dark, was killed in Melbourne to-day by a fall from his bicycle, caused by colliding with a dog. This makes…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Overflow of the Nile. Fifty People Drowned
The River Nile has overflowed to an unusual extent. The river was forty miles wide at Memphis…
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MR. RANFURLEY ROBERTSON, bank manager at Milton, has died from injuries received through a fall from a bicycle while coasting down a hill…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Auckland. Fatal Accident
Mr. Ranfurly Robertson, bank manager at Milton, has died from injuries received by a fall from a bicycle while 'coasting' down a hill…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Kalgoorlie. Terrible Accident Miners Killed
Two miners were killed at Mount Charlotte, Kalgoorlie, on Wednesday, by the fumes caused by a email explosion of dynamite. Three others…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →West Australia. Fatal Accident
Wm. M'Gauchery, one of the miners injured in the explosion at Mount Charlotte mine, Kalgoorlie, is dead, making the fifth death. The other two, M'Gibb and M'Adam,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Accident
The engine and two carriages of the Sydney to Melbourne express left the rails at Yass last night, caused through running into a calf…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday's News. [Through Our Special Agents.] [By Telegraph.] Death From Drowning. Sydney, Thursday Afternoon
AT the inquest on the death of Miss Elizabeth Pender, a student at Hurlstone College, and a daughter of Mr. J. W. Pender, of West Maitland, who was drowned in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Wires. (Per Greville's Telegram Company) Sydney. Thursday, 11.35 A.m. Drowned
AT the inquest on the death of Miss Elizabeth Pender, a student at Hurlstone College, and daughter of Mr. J. W. Pender, of West Maitland, who was drowned in Cooks River…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Short Story. Mr. Lester's Accident
Everybody said that it was very kind of Mr. Lester to take the trouble he did in the case of poor Jack Foster. When Jack was found drowned in the river Mr. Lester paid…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods in New Zealand. Two Men Drowned.—ten Missing
Wellington, Saturday—Boisterous weather has been experienced during the holidays. Telegraphic communication with the greater part of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Drowned in a Sewer. Sydney, Monday Night
DURING a heavy storm this afternoon, as two maintenance men, named Patrick Sullivan and William Macpherson, employed by the water and sewerage board, were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident to the Northern Express. Sydney, Monday Night
THE carriage next to the engine of the Brisbane mail train was derailed outside the station last night. The accident, so far, is unaccounted…
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Two men lost their lives in a sewer in Sydney yesterday in Sydney yesterday. A sudden storm broke over the city and flooded the sewer,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shooting Fatality. Sydney, Monday Night
A PARTY of boys yesterday went out shooting paddy melons, at Lismore, with rides belonging to the Public School Cadets, when the weapon carried by a lad named…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shocking Railway Fatality. (Tuesday's Tamworth News.)
A DREADFUL railway accident, which restilted in the death of a widow woman named Matilda Winter, happened on Saturday night about 9 o'cloct. It appears…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Odd Things Seen in the Accident Ward
AS a surgeon in the ward of a large London hospital one meets with many cases of curious accidents. A short time ago a prize fighter was brought…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatal Railway Accident
TAMWORTH, Monday.--A shocking fatality happened on the railway line about a mile from Tamworth station on Saturday night at a place known as Winter's Crossing. The gatekeeper…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accidentally Shot
A lad named Thomas Parker accidentally shot himself at Wellingrove, near Glen Innes, yesterday, while out shooting,…
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