Strange Case of Drowning. Result of a Practical Joke
A MAN named James Fitzpatrick, who was for some years employed on the Rockbank station, on the Italian and Ballarat line, about 18 miles from Melbourne, as a fencer,…
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Fatal Accident at Junee. a Woman and Child Run Over by a Train
ONE of the saddest fatal railway accidents ever recorded on the southern line occurred yesterday evening at Junee, resulting in the death of a mother and her child. Full…
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A terrible accident was reported last evening as having occurred at Junee late yesterday afternoon. The particulars to hand shew that Mrs. Jones, wife of a railway-shed…
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The Express (Wagga) reports:—A terrible accident occurred at Juuee on Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Jones, wife of a railway-shed employee, had been in charge…
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On Wednesday evening, on the arrival of the passenger and goods train from Hay the people of Junee were horrified to learn that on passing the crossing at the south-western…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining Fatality at Bendigo. Bendigo
A fatal accident happened in the Catherine Reef United mine to-day. John Ellis was trucking at the 620 feet level to the south shaft. The bars usually closing the entrance…
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A SERIOUS railway accident happened at Junee on Saturday evening whereby a railway employee named Thomas Holland met with some severe injuries. Holland is a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Buggy Accident at North Wagga
A SERIOUS buggy accident happened at North Wagga on Sunday night. Mrs. Fletcher, wife of Mr. J. G. Fletcher, manager of Gobbagombalin Station, was…
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The residents of a portion of North Wagga were startled on Sunday evening by the sight of a pair of horses galloping wildly along Gardiner-street with fragments of a buggy…
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A fatal buggy accident of a very sad character occurred at Sandy Creek on the afternoon of Thursday, 13th inst. (says the Narrandera Argus). A Mrs. Mckic, accompanied…
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A CASE of a peculiar character is at present engaging the attention of the North Carlton police. On the 13th inst. Mrs. Wilson, wife of a stonemason, named James Wilson,…
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A mishap occurred on the railway line near the Mortuary station, at Honeysuckle Point, at 6.45 this morning. One of a train of empty coal waggons lost a pin, which…
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On Saturday last a shocking, fatal accident happened in the vicinity of the Railway Station, by which a lad named Rigioald Cowlo, son of a resident of that…
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IT is with deep regret that we have to record the sad accident which happened in Cootamundra on Saturday morning, by which little Reginald George Cowle seven years of…
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This morning the naked body of a man was found floating in Woolloomoolloo Bay, and identified as that of Charles Donohue, aged 36, a grocer residing at Woolloomooloo…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disastrous Inundation in China. the Hoang-ho Again Bursts Its Banks. Fifty Thousand Persons Drowned. London, Oct.24
ADVICES from San Francisco convey intelligence of another terrible disaster in the valley of the Hoang-ho or Yellow River in China. The river has broken its banks,…
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A sad fatality occurred at Hartwell, near Burwood, yesterday, to a boy named Albert Edward Jenke, aged 8 years. The boy was killed by the discharge of a double-barrelled…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Sailor Drowned. Newcastle
A drowning fatality occurred in the harbour to-day, A sailor, named Smith, aboard the ship Amphitrite, threw himself overboard with the intention of swimming ashore…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shocking Railway Accident. a Woman's Leg Cut Off
AN accident of a very painful nature happened at the St. Kilda railway station about 8 o'clock on Wednesday evening (the Aye says). Mrs. Mary Waters, widow, 58…
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A passenger by one of the evening trains from Albert Park to St. Kilda yesterday had a shocking experience, attended by the maiming of her right leg, which was almost…
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