The Thoughts of the Drowning
IT is well-known (the HOSPITAL remarks) that people who have just escaped death by drowning say that during the last period of their immersion, after the…
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11 stories in Northern Rivers's papers
Accident with a Rocket Apparatus
THE Adelaide correspondent of the S. M. Herald writes:—An unfortunate accident happened at Largs Bay on Saturday afternoon during practice with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Frightful Accident with a War Ship
A PRIVATE letter has been received from Kobe, Japan, which contains thrilling details of the overturning of a Japanese warship while undergoing repairs on a slip…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shocking Fatality at Creswick
MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A telegram from Creswick states that information of a distressing occurrence has been received from Smeaton. George South, a miner,…
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A DREADFUL accident happened at the Government Printing Office, when an engineer named William Jansen was seriously injured. It seems that Jansen…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Deplorable Accident
ADVICES from New Caledonia report that on May 29th last a deplorable accident took place at a quarry near Noumea. Three ex-convicts, Beanlion,…
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LAST Wednesday's Tweed Advocate says: —At 11 o'clock on Friday morning last, a Swede known as Jacob, a ships carpenter, narrowly escaped instantaneous…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Collision in Sydney Harbour
ON Friday last some excitement was occasioned in Sydney when a report was circulated that one of the large passenger steamers had been sunk by collision in the harbour. The colliding…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney Harbour Fatality
A SAD boating fatality occurred in the harbour on Monday, 7th hist., when a young woman named Nellie Thompson lost her life, besides which five other persnns are reportdd as missing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accidents at Sea
IT is a rare thing that a sailor falling from aloft at sea escapes unhurt. So uncommon, indeed, are the instances that they are worth noting, and it happens…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident to Emin Pasha. LONDON, December 6
A TERRIBLE sensational and deeply pathetic event han taken place in connection with the arrival at Bugainoyo, on the East Coast of Africa, of Mr, H. M. Stanley, and Emin…
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