Extraordinary Double Fatality. Melbourne
A REMARKABLE double fatality occurred at Albert Park last night shortly after 10 o'clock. At the time there were hundreds of people promenading in the immediate vicinity, it…
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Accidents, 1894
35 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 1 of 2
Bathing Fatality
James Young, who broke his spine while diving in shallow water while bathing in Middle Harbour last Sunday, died last night…
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AN extraordinary shooting accident occurred at the Prospect Inn, Prospect, on Monday evening about 9 o'clock. A man…
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A SAD drowning accident, attended with highly sensational circumstances happened on the Murrumbidgee, in the…
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A SHOCKING fatality occurred at the crossing gates at the railway station at Springwood on Saturday night about 9 o'clock. A domestic servant named Sarah Harris, about 18 years old, in the employ of…
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'GOOD business !' exclaimed Reggie Anstruther, delightedly, as he read a letter, just received, at breakfast one morning. What's good business ?' inquired his…
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LOUTH, Thursday.—A very serious accident, and which may, it is feared, result fatally, took place here on Monday afternoon. Mrs. Robert Morrison, of Mount Pleasant, was…
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A girl named Jessie Murchie was drowned in the flood waters on a road near Singleton on Wednesday, while on her way to school…
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A TERRIBLE accident occurred at Flemington this afternoon during the running of the Bourke Handicap, the last race of the day. As the field was rounding the turn into the…
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ON Tuesday afternoon an inquest was held by Mr. C. M.A. King, the Bo[?]ke Coroner, and a jury of twelve, on the body of a man named Thos. Adams, who was drowned in…
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To stand helplessly on the rivershore. and witness the struggles of a drowning fellow-being is a harrowing experience, and little less than…
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ON Good Friday, these girls were drowned in the Macquarie at Bathurst. Their names were Maggie Yeomane, 14 ; her step -sister Hilda Yeomane, 4 ; and Marie Shepherd, 11. The two first were…
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THE Macquarie at Bathurst was on Friday the sccne of one of the saddest and most melancholy accidents which have occurred for some years; the result being the loss of…
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ON Easter Monday a picnic party left Bourke in the steamor Lady of the Lake for a river trip, and in the afternoon, when the steamer commenced its hemeward trip, a number of…
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A FATAL accident occurred on Sunday last to a young man named Olson, who was killed by being thrown out of a buggy on the old Bourke road about seven miles from Duck Creek. The sad…
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ON Sunday evening last Henry Stockdale reported to the Walgett police that a man named William Harris had that day been drowned in the Castlereagh river, near Mr. Taylor's " Park Vale"…
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On Monday morning at recess time, 11 o'clock a peculiar accident, fortunately unattended with any serious consequences, occurred at the…
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A VERY and accident occurred in the New Main Shaft, Lucknow, about 6 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, resulting in the death of two miners, brothers, named Samuel Roberts and Thomas…
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A commercial traveller named George Sels was terribly injured last night. While getting out of a train at Lewisham whilst it was in motion, he…
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SOME of the most celebrated discoveries in the world of science and art have been the result of happy accident. The worker striving earnestly for one thing, finds that…
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