Fatal Accident. Sydney, Feb, 6
A shocking accident occurred at North Fremantle (W.A.), yesterday. An explosion took place in a quary where several men were working. One man was slightly…
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Accidents, 1888
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Fatal Accident. Sydney, Feb. 9
A young girl, aged 20 named Susanne Schmid, was romping with a companion in a railway carriage on the line to the Semaphore (Adelaide) when she fell against the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams. Cobar Gaol Fatality. Cobar, Feb 23
At the police court yesterday, acting Gaoler Smith was committed for trial to the Dubbo Court of Quarter Sessions for homicide, in a case arising out of the death of…
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A verdict of accidental death has been returned at the inquest on the fireman killed at Frazer and Co.'s stores…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boating Fatality. Sydney, March 20
Four young men, all Sydney residents, went out boating at Botany on Sunday, and the boat has since been found bottom upwards near Lr Perouse, but nothing has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Serious Railway Accident. London, .March 19
At a railway accident at Blackshear, America, caused through the collapse of a trestle bridge, 25 persons were killed and 35 injured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Serious Accident. Sydney, May 11
This morning a fettler named Henry O'Grady was knocked down by a train near Strathfield rand received injuries which must result in his death…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams. Accident to Major - General Milford. Sydney, May 22
Major-General Milford had his right hip fractured yesterday on alighting from a tram car…
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A child, three years old, was ran over at Hurtsville railway station this afternoon, causing injuries necessitating amputation of one foot…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FATALITY. Sydney, June 1
William Edwards, a clerk at Permewan Wright" and Co.'s, Albury, was killed at that station yesterday through some machinery failing from the sling with…
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A man named named Metcalfe, a French polisher, fell from Beale's new building this morning and received injuries likely to prove fatal…
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A man in charge of the life at Hoffungs stores [?]his scalp torn off from ear to ear, exposing his skull, through getting his head jammed in the frame…
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A RAILWAY accident of a somewhat alarming character occurred on Saturday night at Marong. The train leaves Sandhurst at 20 minutes to 9 for Kerang, and passes a goods train which leaves…
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ON Sunday afternoon Paddy Perry, for many years in Mr. Fagan's employ as coachdriver, and latterly lessee of Mx. Tasker's billiard table, met with injuries which, if they do not terminate…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Accident at Goulburn. Sydney, September 6
In the railway yards at Gouldburn an accident occurred to a mixed train just as it arrived from Bundengrove through the engine leaving the rails, damaging rolling…
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A young girl named Mary Gott fell through a skylight of the Central Arcade, George-street, and was dangerously injured. RACING…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Accident in France. London, September 5
A message from Paris states that a train ran off the line near Digon, and while stationary was run into by an express mail train. The smash was terrific. several…
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A railway accident occurred this morning three miles from Young by a train composed of two engines and two break vans running in a another train which was a standstill…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ACCIDENT. Sydney, September 14
The Postmaster-General and Speaker, met with a buggy accident between Hexham and Stroud, and both were much bruised and shaken…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ACCIDENT. Sydney, September 28
A child, 9 years old, fell off the cliffs, near Newcastle, a [?] of 200 feet, receiving frightful injuries, there is no hope of its recovery…
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