Drowning Visions
THE New York Times has an interesting story of a man saved from a wreck through having a life-preserver, which enabled him eventually to get hold of a plank—alone it…
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28 stories in Riverina's papers · page 1 of 2
The Late Accident on Lake Colac. (Front the Colac Observer Jan. 3.)
AN inquest on the bodies of Wallace CornWall Smalley and Frank Smalley was held at Kinane's Victoria Hotel yesterday, before Thomas Rae, Esq., coroner…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dreadful Railway Accident. (From the Ballarat Evening Post, Jan. 11.)
WE regret exceedingly to have to state that tins morning Mr.Chas. Fuller, stationmaster at Buninyong East, met his death through an accident on the line. From what we can…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Drowned in a Well. Magisterial Inquiry
ON Wednesday morning the Police Magistrate, Mr. Baylis, held an inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Sophia. Batt, who as was mentioned in the ADVERTISER of January 29, had been found…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Extraordinary Accident. (From the Bendigo Advertiser, Feb. 24.)
THOMAS SEDDON, aged 35 a splitter, met with a most extraordinary accident in returning from Marong Races on Friday night to his home on the Bullock Creeke. The road was through a bush country, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Accidents at the Newcastle Collieries
"YESTERDAY" says the Newcastle Chronicle of Tueday, February I8; "was a day fraught with-accidents at two of our coal-mines, both of which ended fatally. The first occurred at the B pit, Wallsend…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Death by Drowning. (From the Southern Argus,)
ON Monday Mr. Betts, the coroner, held, an inquest at the dwelling-house of John Jeffrey, Jerrara Greek, touching the death of Maurice Jeffrey, aged 27 years. John Jeffrey stated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Serious Car Accident
AN accident of a very serious kind occurring on the Richmond road, Melbourne, on Saturday afternoon, is reported by the Daily Telegraph. A waggonette, the property of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fall of a Concert-hall at Smyrna.—two Hundred Persons Reported Drowned
The following details are given in the Levant Herald of the terrible accident at Smyrna:- SMYRNA, FEB. 10…
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On the 1st of March, the greatest excitement prevailed in Liverpool on the receipt of a despatch, to the effect that a three-masted screw steamer, with a black funni, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Zealand Items. [?] Men Drowned by the Capsizing of a Boat.—two Mo[?]ris Wahsed Away in a Flood and Drowned
This district, which has,for some months enjoyed a pleasant freedom from the fatal accidents for which it was at one time so notorious, has during the last week, been the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Accident at Newtown. (From the Empire, June 27.)
An accident happened on the Great Southern and Western line of railway, at Newtown, yesterday morning, the results of which may, in all probability, prove fatal to the life of a…
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A TERRIBLE accident occurred at Dixon, Ill, on May 4 The rite of baptism was being administered to a number of recent converts to one of the Baptist ch[?]rches here, at a point…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dense Fog and Accident to the Government Steamer Dooribang. (From the Newcastle Chronicle.)
On Thursday morning last, just at daylight, a dense fog came on from the sea—so much so that objects were not visible more than a few yards off. Everything…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Mining Accident
Tat Ovena and Murray Advertiser gives a report of the circumstances under which a miner named Thomas Kennedy met his death on Saturday week. An inquest was held on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident on the Waratah Railway and Miraculous Escape
On Saturday night last. (says the Newcastle Chronicle) a Mr. Gimmell, the second mate of the barque Wallaroo, which vessel was lying alongside of the jetty at Waratah…
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THE 'Australasian' says:—"It is seldom we see such unanimity shown by the journals published in the different mining towns as they display in the moral they draw from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Frightful Accident at the Gravel Pits Near Seymour. (From the Goulburn Courier.)
On Wednesday last, at about two o'clock in the afternoon, an accident occurred at the ballast pits of Messrs, Styles, Murray and Co., whereby a man named John Livesey…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Terrible Railway Accident at Wigan
A TERRIBLE accident occurred at Wigan station about twenty minutes past 1 o'clock on the morning of 2nd, August to the tourist Scotch express of the London and North Western Railway. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Collision in Hobson's Bay
AT on early hour on Sunday morning, the [?] Blackbird, inward [?] from Newcastle, N.S.W., and the brig Edith Haviland, outward bound to the same port, came in…
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