Fatal Gun Accident. a Roman Catholic Priest Shot
A sad death byaccidental shooting occurred on Tuesday evening, 2nd instant, the Rev. John Fitzgerald, a Roman Catholic priest, being the victim. The reverend…
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21 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 2
Drowning Fatality
A SAD fatality occurred here on Sunday morning, when Perey, the eldest son of Mr. B.J. Martin, postmaster, was drowned in Leycester Creek. Deceased had gone with four younger…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Accident at Epernay
THE champagne c[?]llars of M. Pol Roger, at Epernay, have fallen in over an extent of nearly a heetare and smashed 500 [?]asks containing each 220 to 230 litres of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Awful Accident. a Policeman Killed. Cut to Pieces by an Ice-saw
A FEARFUL accident occurred about 6 o'clock on Saturday morning at the premises of the Fresh Food and Ice Company, Limited, Darling Harbour, in the ice cutting and…
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A SAD fatality occurred at Byron Bay yesterday evening when a very popular official on the Lismore-Tweed railway, in the person of Mr. Charles Sayer, railway guard, lost his life…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Byron Bay Accident. Magisterial Inquiry
A MAGISTERIAL inquiry was held at 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday, before Mr. O. B. Wareham, J.P., touching the death of Charles Sayer, railway guard, killed the previous day. Messrs. G. R…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Ottawa Fire. Result of an Accident
LATER reports state that the fire by which a great part of the City of Ottawa was destroyed was not the work of Fenians, as had been suggested, but was accidental…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Accident to the Transport Steamer Manchester Port
A PRELIMINARY Marino Board inquiry was held at Brisbane on Monday into the circumstances surrounding the accident to the Manchester Port. Captain M'Lellan, the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Bad Accident
IT has been found necessary to amputate Captain Kenny Herbert's right hand, which was crushed in an accident on Colenso Bridge. The operation was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Wollongong Fishing Party Capsized. a Lad Drowned
A PARTY of Wollongong residents, consisting of Police-constable M'Andrews, Mr. A. G. Bodymeade, and Mr. A. Wearne, and a son of Constable M'Andrews, aged…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fatal Accident at Corowa. a Youth Buried Alive
A SHOCKING accident, resulting in the death of a youth named Otto Moras, age 17, and injury to two others, name Thomas Dixon, aged 18, and William…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Restored Hours After Drowning
IT is now recognised as possible to rostorate life after hours of apparent death to persons taken from the water or from suffocating gases. An apparently drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Victorian Railway Accident
THE railway accident on Thursday morning took place on the outer circle line. Close to the Heidelberg Railway Station the railway runs through the Kew Lunatic Asylum…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Drowned in a Tank
AN elderly man named James Bourne, for many years employed at Brocklesby station, near Corowa, was missed from home on Thursday morning. A. search…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Oratava-Bremen Collision
PARTICULARS have now been received of the collision between the Oratava and Bremen. The Transport Oratava, belonging to the Pacific Steam Navigation Company,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An Extraordinary Explosion. Narrow Escape From a Fatal Accident
JUST in front of the Mariner's Church, at the foot of George-street, an accident happened on Tuesday afternoon which for a time caused much excitement in that thickly populated part…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Deadly Toy Pistol. a Girl Accidentally Killed
THE Parra[?]tta district coroner held a magisterial inquiry on Monday regarding the death of a girl named Alice Bell, 13. The unfortunate girl was shot with a toy…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Fatal Accident
ON Tuesday morning last (says the Tweed "Herald") a strange accident occurred at the Cudgen wharf, which resulted in the death of a man named Moran, who was proceeding to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Result of a Train Accident. £2000 for the Loss of a Leg
IN Banco on Monday, before the Chief Justice and a jury of four, an action was tried in which a boy named Peelgrane by his next friend, sued the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sad Drowning Fatality
A SAD accident happened at Tuckurimba on Thursday afternoon last, whereby a young man named Mortimer Hayes lost his life. The deceased, who was a rame cutter lately in the…
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