A Man Drowned
A man named Michael Sullivan was drowned this morning by the upsetting of a punt at Gundurimbu…
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Adelaide. Monday. Shocking Railway Fatality
A man named Walter Chambers was cut to pieces on the railway line between Large and Adelaide this morning. The only complete portion of the body was the head and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Intercolonial. [By Telegraph.] Sydney. Monday. Shocking Fatality—a Terrible Fall
A shocking accident occurred at St. Mary's Cathedral this morning. It appears that two men named John Leslie and Wm. Drury were being raised to the top of an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Colliery Disaster. Seventy Eight Dead—forty-six Injured. Thirty Still Entombed. London, Friday Night
Later particulars are published respecting the terrible colliery explosion at Bochum, a large mining and manufacturing town near Essen, in Prussia…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Accident at Gobb[?]gombalin. a Boundary Rider Killed
A BOUNDARY rider employed at Gobbrgombalin station named John Daniel Kirk was killed early on Saturday morning. No one witnessed the accident but the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegraphic. New South Wales. a Terrible Accident. Two Men Fall Eighty Feet. One Killed Almost Instantly. Sydney, Monday Night
A terrible accident occurred at St. Mary's Cathedral to-day. Two workmen named Leslie and Drury were being hauled up in a box which was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidental Death of a Boundary Rider. a Magisterial Inquiry
Early on Saturday morning an elderly man named John Daniel Kirk, overseer and boundary rider on Gobbagumbalin station, Wagga, was found dead on the Narandera Road…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sulky Accident at Junee
On Sunday last Mr Hugh Longmore, of Junee, met with a serious accident whilst returning from a visit to his father. He was driving a sulky (according to the Junee…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Jockey's Terrible Condition. a Series of Accidents
It may be taken for granted that nothing is further from the mind of the jockey when riding a close-contested race, than the chance of an accident occurring. The frequency…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident at Broken Hill. Two Men Killed. Three Others Seriously Injured
A terrible accident occurred at the British Mine, Broken Hill, this morning. Between 30 and 40 tons of sulphides fell upon three miners…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rough Weather at Sea. Passengers Battened Down. Six of a Crew Injured
The three-masted schooner Adelaide from Newcastle to Auckland, returned to port to-day in a leaking condition. She encountered terrific weather at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Broken Hill. Monday. Serious Mining Accident
The most aerioua mining accident since the Broken Hill South mine disaster occurred at the British mine about 1 o'clock this morning, when three miners named J. Reid, J…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local and General News. Severe Buggy Accident
Mr Fred M'Donough, one of the assistants at the Wagga Post Office, met with a severe buggy accident on Saturday evening. He was badly bruised about the head and face…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Accident at Sea. Fifteen Men Washed Overboard. Never Seen Again
The French barque President Felix Faure, 2,398 tons, which arrived at Adelaide on Monday from Barry after a passage of 103 days, reported the loss of 15 man at one time…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Hunting Accident. Lady Violet Brassey Injured. London
Lady Violet Brassey, wife of Mr H. L. Brassey, nephew of Lord Brassey. has met with a rather serious accident Her ladyship was hunting at Haythorp…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Collision with a Tramcar. Two People Badly Injured
A collision occurred in Bourke-street this afternoon between a horse attached to a spring cart and a Clifton Hill tramcar, which resulted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →All Old Fisherman's Death. Found Drowned
An old flsherman, who Was well-known about Wagga, and whose name in said to have been either "Jim" Smart or "Andy" M'Donald, was drowned in the river during…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death From Drowning. Man's Body Found in the River
Whilst on a fishing excursion on Pomingalarna Station on Sunday, Mr Thomas Loughlin and a party of friends found the clothes of a man on the bank of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coach Accident in New Zealand. a Victorian Bank Manager Seriously Injured
Mr Henry Gyles Turner, manager of the Commercial Bank of Australia in Melburne, together with his wife and Mr Hennessy, were returning by coach on Monday from Ara…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Found Drowned in the River. a Magisterial Inquiry. an Open Finding
Mr G. H. Tempest, J.P., Coroner for the district held a magisterial inquiry on Tuesday into the circumstances surrounding the discovery of the body of a man named…
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