Sad Accident
During a children's party at Daylesford, Victoria, a lad playing with a pea rifle, pointed It at a girl named Lawson, pulled the trigger, and the bullet entered her mouth and passed…
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Accidents, 1899
127 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 1 of 7
Poetry. Drowned!
Only a drowned man—a human wreck Cast ehorowards by the sea--that gives us panne To broach once more the commonplace of…
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The engine of the passenger train from Bathurst to Sydney was derailed yesterday morning near Blackheath. No serious injury was done…
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Henry Livers, a resident of Arncliffe, was drowned in George's River at Come yesterday…
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A man named Jacob Lewis, whilst fishing off the Cliffs, at Coogee, yesterday, lost his balance, and fell a distance of 50 feet to the rocks below. His body was picked up by the…
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ON Wednesday morning Mr. Arthur Brooke was kilted in Brisbane by falling from an upstairs window in the Imperial Hotel. He was unfit recently owner of Milchengowrie station,…
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Much regret was expressed on Saturday morning last when it became known that a [?]ively young man named Joseph [?]now, leaving a wife and five children…
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Two cyclists, named Marsden and Chandler, collided at Adelaide on Saturday. The former was thrown on his head, and died a few minutes, after…
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On Monday last, Mr. R. M. Hughes, acting Coroner, conducted an inquiry at Yanda concerning the death of a man named Waiter Setchell, whose body was found in…
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A Bill to prevent railway accidents has been introduced in the House of Commons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegraphic Intelligence. Appalling Railway Accident. Sydney
AN appealing railway accident occurred at Rakara, New Zealand, on Saturday night. An excursion train, crowded with passengers, was telescoped by a train from Christchurch. Three…
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A man earned John Parkington was drowned in the river, in the vicinity of the wharves, on Monday night last. It appeared that Partington, who was a bargeman…
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THE suburb of Newtown was thrown into a state of excitement on Friday evening about 6 o'clock by a report that a girl had been shot. All kinds of rumours were in circulation, but the…
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AN elderly man named Wallace Allan, formerly a well-known grazi[?]r in the western district, but lately throungh ill-health living a retired life in the southern part of the…
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During the storm on Saturday at Yanyarrie two brothers, Robert Tonkin, 18, and Henry Tonkin, 16 were both struck dead by lightning and their horses also…
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A PAINFUL accident happened last night, about 7 o'clock, to a seven year old son of Mr. McDonald, late of Collie. The little fellow and some other boys were playing in a yard at…
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NEWS has been received of a terrible accident on the Emu Bay Railway Company's works at Pieman River, Tasmania, resulting in the death of three men named Robert Whiting,…
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During races at Sleiglitz, Victoria, one of the horses bolted among the spectators, knocking down about a dozen women and children, seve al receiving terrible injuries…
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THE Board appointed to report on the tram accident states it was due to the negligence of the driver and fireman, who are to be dealt with by the Commissioners…
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Whilst two brothers named Hinde were riding to their home near Balranald yesternight, the youngest, aged 17, crashed into an empty cart which…
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