Ballina Fatality. Steamer Sinks at Wharf
Quite a gloom was cast over the holiday carnival in Ballina yesterday (Boxing Day) morning, when it became known that two visitors, namely, Mr…
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Steamer Accident
SYDNEY,Tuesday—The steamer Port Darwin,while shifting her moorings near Cremorne, dropped the line which secured her. She commenced to drift slowly towards…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A motor car fell over an embankment at Katoomba a distance of 15 feet, one of the occupants being injured…
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A serious accident befell Mr. William Sullivan on the Bellingen-Dorrigo mountain road on Friday night. He left Bellingen on top of a load of one of Mr. Tom Baker's…
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Two hundred and seventy British sailors have been drowned off the Scotch coast…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A verdict of accidental death was recorded by the Coroner in the case of Robert Ernest Windechattal, aged 10, at Leichhardt, who died from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Ballina Founders. Strange Occurrence and Fatality
In the early hours of Friday morning (27th December), death came in an extraordinary manner to two men, and other persons had narrow escapes, with…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Sad Fatality. Man Falls Under a Train. MELBOURNE
Stephen Young, a lorry driver, while seeing a crippled brother off to Melbourne from the Seymour railway station, where the crippled one was to underge…
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Mr. John Gordon, of Homeleigh, Kyogle, had the misfortune to have his right wrist fractured and a bone in his left hand broken as the result…
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At Wollongong (N.S.W.) on 30th ult., Walter Castles, a farrier, while engaged in shoeing a horse, turned his head quickly in the act of…
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Loaded coal hoppers, one open waggon and a guard's van of a goods train which arrived at Valley Heights broke away during shunting operations, and…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The Cremorne pontoon was floated yesterday…
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Sir,—The report of the surf accident at Byro[?] Bay on Boxing Day in your issue of 30th December, represents that I, in going to the rescue of Miss Mildenhall, did no good,…
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A sad drowning fatality occurred it Beaudesert, when Joseph Pascoe, a young man lost his life. Pascoe was a member of a picnic party at…
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The train that left Rockhampton last night for Lake's Creek was passing along Denison Street when a tram crossed the line. The train smashed into the…
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A shooting accident occurred at Messrs. Kemp and Fleming's property, Crystal Mountain Station, near Daiveen, as a result of which Louisa Stevens, who was employed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Mishaps. Shunting Accidents at Hurstville and Rockdale. SYDNEY
While some railway carriages were being shunted into Hurstville station this morning into a dead head with too much speed they crashed into the buffers. The…
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Sir,—I notice with some amusement S. McDermid's remarks about the Byron Bay surfing accident. Strange to say, S. McDermid was the only person that gave me—your…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Pte. German, 21, after being rescued from drowning in Melbourne yesterday, was being taken to hospital in a motor ambulance, when a collision…
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SYDNEY, Saturdays.—While a number of children were bathing in the Murrumbidgee River near. Narrandera, Dorothy Robertson, aged 14, got into difficulties. Peter Sullivan,…
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