Drowning Accident. Melbourne
Yesterday 100 members of the Submarine Engineers Corps left Melbourne by the steamer Vulcan for Queenscliff to take part in the operations to-morrow…
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Accidents, 1906
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Colliery Fatality
LONDON, Monday.—A fall of workings in the Albion Colliery, Ponty-pridd caused an explosion, which killed five repairers…
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Owing to the blunder of a signalman, a train conveying 167 Servinns, Poles, and Russian Jews from Baltimore to the north-west of the United…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collision in the Harbour. Steamers Macleay and Tarshaw
A collision occurred in Newcastle harbour at about half-past eleven o'clock last night between the streamers Macleay and Tarshaw…
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A tragedy occurred to-day at Eaglehawk in the New Argus mine. Two miners, John Hamell, 40 years, and William Newman, 35 years, were working in…
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The invention of the laryngoscope was due to chance. "I longed," said the late Manuel Garcia, "to see a healthy glottis exposed in the very act of singing. One…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—The passenger steamer Dix sank after collision in Puget Sound. Forty-one of those aboard were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Singular Haul. Fishermen Nearly Drowned. London
When some French fishermen were raising a drag-net in Erquy Bay, Brittany, they found at least 1500 bulge octopuses in it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Burning Fatality. Death of Mr. E. Crozier. Adelaide
Mr. Edwin Crozier, of Bimburnie Station, one of the well-known family of brothers who all their lives have been connected with squatting in South…
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A fatal accident occurred on beard the German steamer Grosser kurfurst, lying at the N.D.L. wharf, Circular Quay, this afternoon. The accident resulted in the…
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When the Norddeutscher-Lyold steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse was leaving Cherbourg, in France, she collided with the Royal Mail…
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LONDON, Friday.—Owing to the collapse of the columns supporting the vats at Gray's Distillery, Glasgow; 200,000 gallons of whisky…
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Mrs. Nicholis, wife of Mr. Thomas Nicholls, of Bishop's Bridge, sustained serious injuries in a burning accident at her residence on Thursday evening. Mrs…
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Shortly after 5 o'clock on Saturday afternoon two men, Arthur Green and James Fullick, were crossing the railway bridge which spans Cockle Creek,…
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LONDON. Monday.—A passenger train collated with an empty goods train at Alleskeft during a fog. The driver and fireman were killed…
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The district coroner, Mr. C. Hibble held and Inquest at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday into the Circumstances surrounding the death of Arthur Ernest…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Killed in a Shaft. an Alarming Accident
An alarming accident, which was attended by fatal results, occurred at about 9 o'clock on Monday night in the shaft now being sunk on the Borehole Colliery…
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An inquiry into the circumstances of the death of John Hatler Mitchison, a wheeler, who was fatally injured in Killingworth Colliery on Monday, was held…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Teralba Shaft Fatality. Inquest Resumed
The inquest concerning the death of George Hugh Linton Cottell, who was killed in the air-shaft, now being sunk at Teralba Colliery, near Boolaroo, on…
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An express train has been wrecked in a collision southwards of Lynchburg, in Virginia. Mr. Spencer, the President of the…
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