To-day's Cablegrams Tasmanian Agent-General Drowned LONDON
Alfred Dobson, Agent-General for Tasmania, while returning to Folkestone from a flying visit to Paris, was sitting on the rails of the steamer…
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Railway Collision
A serious railway collision occurred on the Zig Zag, N.S.W., on Tuesday evening. It appears that a goods train was unable to negotiate the incline, and was therefore…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Serious Railway Collision. Many Trucks Derailed. Debris on Fire
A serious railway collision happened on Tuesday evening at the top points, near Clarence, some distance from Lithgow. Goods train No. 32, in charge…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cycling Fatality. Alleged Negligence. Youth Committed for Manslaughter. Sydney
The inquest concerning the death of Mrs. Charlotte Neil, who was killed in Centennial Park, was concluded to-day. The coroner found that deceased…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Guard Killed. Three Others Injured. Sensational Leap for Life
Four persons were injured, viz. James Cortello (guard), John Carr (guard), Alfred Evans (driver), and Michael Walsh, a passenger, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Horrible Accident
An accident of a dreadful nature occurred at the Public Works Offices, Melbourne, last Friday. A middle-aged man named Maple, who was engaged painting…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Life Saves Drowned
Two young ladies, the nitres of M. Ledouy, owner of the [?] des Houles, near Dinard,France, were bathing in a little bay. One of them,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Injured Players Recovered. London
Two members of tho "Wallabies" football team, Flanagan and P. Burge, who have been prevented from playing in recent matches by having their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drowned While Bathing a Young Man's End. Sydney
A young man named Cochrane was drowned while bathing in the George's River on Sunday, near Campbelltown. He had been playing with two other…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Turkish Ship Founders Fifty Passengers Drowned. London, Dec. 14
A Turkish steamer bound front Constantinople to Sevastopol foundered in a storm. The crew and fifty passengers were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrific Dynamite Explosion. Hundred People Killed and Injured
One hundred people have been killed and injured by an explosion of 40 tons of dynamite at Basobispo, Panama. The explosive was stored for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Terrible Accident. Fishing with Dynamite. Two Men Horribly Mutilated
A terrible accident occurred at the fishing ground, near the old jetty at Carnarvon, W.A., last week. Two young men, Duncan M'Crae and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Nasty Accident
Whilst stacking on Mr. M'Cracken's station, "Towarra," a harvester named W. Moore met with an nasty accident yesterday. After having successfully…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To-day's Cablegrams Terrible Collision. LONDON
A terrible collision occurred in a tunnel on the overland railway between Brine and Limoyes, in France, and a number of trucks were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →B[?]d Results of Tram Accident. The Case of Mrs. Mackie
Nothing but good can result in giving to the public some hint as to the various incidents in which Mrs. Kate Mackie, of No. 2 Stanley-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wrecked. Steamer Strikes Mizzen Head. Captain and Four of Crew Drowned. Heavy Losses Involved. London
The steamer Grade, with 22,000 bales of cotton an board, bound from Galreston, Texas, for Liverpool has been totally wrecked on the Mitten…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fires. a Serious Accident
Bush fires at Mullengandra destroyed Mr. M'Leish's crop and most of Mr. Bert Mitchell's grass. Mr. David Taskins lost fifty acres of crop, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Peculiar Fatal Accident. MELBOURNE
Margaret Baxter was accidentally killed at Terang yesterday. On returning from school she found no one at home, when she raised a window in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chaff-cutter Accident
A young man named Thomas Smith had both hands chopped off by a chaff-cutter on a farm near Inverell…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shockiug Fatality. Schoolgirl Strangled
Margaret Baxter, eldest daughter oi Mr. Benjamin Baxter, was accidentally killed at Terang (Vic.) on Wednesday. On returning from school she found…
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