Accidental Drowning. a Snow River Fatality. Sydney
The Coroner returned a verdict of accidental death by drowning in the Snowy River, of Louis Simeon Barnard, Secretary of the Navigation…
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Drowning Fatality at Coraki
A painful sensation was created at Coraki on Christmas Day when the news spread that Mr. J. Greenaway, the well-known enginedriver…
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A report from Narrandera states, that two girls, Ivy Kippen, 19, and Pauline Boyton, were drowned in the Murrumbidgee yesterday…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Ivy Kippen, 19, and Pauline Royton, 14, were drowned in the Murrumbidgee River at Narrendera while bathing. One got into difficulties, and while the…
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Probably more than 300 were drowned in the sinking of the Persia. It is believed the survivors may have reached Malta. The first list of survivors…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A sensational affray occurred at the railway camp, Coff's Harbor. It appears that a quarrel took place between two men, one of whom had been accepted for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General War News Commander Drowned. Blowing Up the Natal. Foul Play Suspected. London
Several officers, including the commander and nine warrant officers were drowned when the cruiser Natal was blown up…
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On Xmas Eve night as Mr. James Fraser, of Greenridge, his wife and young son were leaving Casino for home, the pony they were driving slipped on Irving…
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Private Augustus Lewis, of the 12th Reinforcements, 2nd Battalion, was slot m the abdomen at Liverpool, owing to the accidental explosion of a revolver…
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Robert Estell, aged 61, a railway employee, brother of the Minister for Labor and Industry, residing at Dora-st, Hurst ville, was knocked down and killed…
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Yesterday afternoon Private Joe Watts, of Numulgi, who is down on final leave, met with a sulky accident which might have proved more serious. He was driving along…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A motor car while on the ferry punt near Kempsey star ted. suddenly and crashed into the river. A number of passengers were precipitated into the water…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Robert Estell, aged 60, and brother of the Minister of Labor and Industry, was run down and killed by a train on the Iliawarra line last night. Deceased…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Jessie Sherwood, aged 14, fell overboard from the ferry steamer at Farm Cove last night, and would have been drowned but for the plueky action of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fall From a Waggon a Hornsby Fatality. Sydney
At the Hornsby Police Court the District Corner, H. Richardson Clark, founds that Christopher Herman Schweikert, aged 46, sanitary contractor,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Collision in the Mediterranean. P. and O. Vessel Sunk
LONDON, Tuesday.—The P. and O. Coy's s.s. Geelong has been sunk in the Mediterranean by collision with an admiralty store ship. No loss of life occurred…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A mild sensation was caused on the crowded Block in Collina-st., Melbourne, about noon yesterday, when Mr. Fowler, M.P., and Henry Chinn met…
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A sad drowning fatality occurred at Tweed Heads early yesterday morning when an accountant, named Doran employed by the Colonial Mutual Life…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sad Fatality Fall From a Crane. Sydney
Through the jib of an electric falling, Donald Hendry, fifty-five, a dogman, a native of Scotland, was thrown to the roadway from a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drowned at Tweed Heads. a Brisbane Accountat
BRISBANE, Thursday.—Mr. Robert Doran, accountant in the National Mutual Life office at Brisbane, was drowned this morning wlile bathing at Tweed Heads. He was 47 years…
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