Infant Drowned
The body of an infant, three weeks old, has been found floating in the harbour…
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Accidents, 1886
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Found Drowned
Mr. James Foster, chief steward of the Coorong, missing from that vessel, has been found drowned…
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A lad named John Hogg, about 16 years of age employed as "a wheeler in the B pit, Greta, met with an accident this afternoon through a skip passing over him. His…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wickham. the Fatal Accident
A melancholy 'bus accident occurred here yesterday, which resulted in the death of a little girl, 4 years of age, named Grace Ashton, daughter of Mr. Paul Ashton,…
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ANOTHER Tasmanian railway accident has occurred. A train was travelling over the Bridgewater viaduct when the fastenings of the swing bridge parted…
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A number of colonial visitors were being conveyed in a truck round the Portsmouth Dockyard when it ran off the mails. Fifteen persons were injured, and…
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The body of a man named George Thurgood has been found in a water-hole at Alexandria…
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A seaman named Ole Mossige fell from aloft the ship Samardore during her voyage from Paget Sound, and was drowned…
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Captain Blackshaw, N.S.W., one of the team of riflemen, was on the truck which met with an accident at Portsmouth yesterday. He received a…
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A son of Mr. Walter Scott, of Waverley, has been drowned in a well…
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A MINER named Gerrard had the forefinger of his right hand fractured yesterday morning at the A.A. Co.'s pit Another miner named Petty also had his foot badly…
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WALTER NICHOLSON, one of the pilot-boat men sustained very serious injuries yesterday morning in the following manner. He was to one of the whale boats belonging to…
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Captain Blackshaw is recovering from the effects of the injuries received in the Portsmouth railway accident…
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Chief Justice Dobson was more seriously injured in the Portsmouth accident than as at first expected…
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A lad named George Mitchell, aged nine years, while getting on a tramcar in motion, slipped, and his right leg was severed by the wheels…
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I HAVE just learnt of an unfortunate fatal accident to a young man named Thomas Leitch, a driver working at the Wallsend Colliery. From particulars just to hand it…
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Mr. Richard Croft, solicitor, of Forbes, was found drowned in the lagoon. An old resident of Wollongong, named Edwards, was also…
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An old lady named Mrs. Hoskins has been killed on the railway near Yarraville…
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During the football match on Saturday three players-were injured and crrried off the ground; one, named Stacey, from Queensland, has…
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A boat containing Captain Thomas (third mate), and two lads, were returning from the ship Wynstay, when they were run down by the…
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