Drowning Fatality at the Junction
As two boys, named Wrightson and Watson, were proceeding across Moxey's paddock at the Junction yesterday morning, they discovered…
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Accidents, 1888
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Terrible Balloon Accident
AT the Central Canada Exhibition at Ottawa one of the attractions was a balloon ascent, in which Professor Williams, after reaching a height of…
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AT the Clarendon Hotel, Blane-street, yesterday, Mr. G. C. Martin, J.P., district coroner, held an inquest concerning the death of George…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Monday. Fatal Accident
A MAN, name unknown, fell on the rails at Darling Harbour, and was knocked down by a shunting engine and terribly mutilated. Death was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drowning Accident at New Lambton
YESTERDAY afternoon a child, aged 4 years, the son of Mr. John Robinson, of New Lambton, whilst playing at a waterhole near the New Lambton…
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A PAINFUL accident recently happened to a man named James Kelly in the Ellen Harkins and Wilmot mine, Gympie. Kelly descended the shaft…
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A SHOCKING accident happened at sawmills on Tuesday morning, whereby a young man named John Jacobson suffered horrible mutilation of…
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A SAD accident occurred in Hobson's Bay on Sunday afternoon, by which five lives were lost. Henry Beck, firemen on H.M.S. Nelson, took his…
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THE Royal Mail Steamship Company's steamer Para, which arrived at Plymouth on October 17 from Barbadoes, brought the crew of the ship…
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A FATAL mining accident has occurred in the No. 1 South Stockholm claim, Queensland. A minor named Polly was ascending the shaft in a bucket,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[Reuter's Telegrams.] LONDON, Monday. Accident to Admiral Tryon
Admiral Sir Geo. Tryon, formerly Commodore in charge of the Australian station, while on a visit to Grimsthorpe Castle in Lincolnshire,…
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TOM MORRIS, aged 35, a machinist employed at the Punch office, was out boating on the Yarra with a mate named Optiz, when the boat upset…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Four Men Drowned at Glasgow
Glasgow has been enveloped in a dense fog. There were a number of accidents. Four men walking on the quay fell into the River Clyde and…
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YESTERDAY afternoon a seaman named Thomas Dalton, 53 years of age, belonging to the German barque Orion, fell from the crosstrees on to the deck…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Recent Accident at Lymington
AN inquest on the body of the deceased man, Thomas Jones, was held yesterday (Friday) evening at the residence of Mr. James Ellis,…
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A SHOCKING accident occurred on the Great Northern Railway, near Branxton, on Saturday, whereby a fireman, named Thomas Plunkett, lost his life…
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ON Sunday morning Mr. W. Taylor, a minor who lives in Little Young-street, Carrington, was very nearly accidentally poisoning himself. It appears…
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A London cable, dated November 13, says:—"Considerable wreckage and a number of bodies have been washed ashore between Looe and Polperro, in Cornwall, during…
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The steamer Port Phillip, which left Sydney on October 20, with a cargo of wool, has been in collision in the Suez Canal. Her bulwarks were…
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A large steamer belonging to Workington has foundered in the Solway Firth. Eleven of the crew were drowned…
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