Immersion and Fatality. TASMANIA
A number of seamen of H.M.S. Challenger, while watching a regatta at Hobart, were precipitated into the water, but all were saved except…
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Railway Fatality at Junee. JUNEE
A youth named Edgar Church, aged 17 years, employed in the loco, department as a call boy, whilst going to work was run down by a light…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Railway Accident. North Western Mail Upset. Eleven Passengers Injured. Sydney, Wednesday, 9 a.m
A serious railway accident occurred at midnight. A train from Nirrabri to Sydney, with a large number of passengers, got off the line near…
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An elderly man named George Pilgrim, a baker by trade, was found lying at the corner of a street in St. Peters, suffering from a scalp wound…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Railway Accident. North-western Mail Upset Eleven Passengers Injured. Sydney, Wednesday, 9 a.m
A serious railway accident occurred at midnight. A train from Narrabri to Sydney, with a large number of passengers, got off the line near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →13 Inches of Rain in 24 Hours. a Constable Drowned. Brisbane
Heavy rain which fell in the Brisbane district during the past twenty-four hours resulted in many low-lying districts in Brisbane and suburbs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Late Junee News. Railway Accident
A sad accident occurred on Friday night about 8.45 p.m., when Edgar Church, aged 17 years old, employed as call boy in the loco, department,…
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A youth named James Towers, in attempting to swim the flooded waters at Lansdowne, was drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sad Fatality in a Well. a Young Man Loses His Life
A PAINFUL sensation was caused in Hillston on Friday afternoon last when word was brought into town that Mr. William Frederick Morant,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shocking Fatality. Fall Into a Copper. Sydney
Irene Stringfellow, aged 3, met with a terrible death yesterday. When playing with two other children in the back yard of her parents' residence,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Brothers Drowned. Sad Fatality at Maitland. Found Clasped Together
A sad drowning fatality occurred near South Greta colliery on Saturday afternoon. Two little boys. Daniel and Frederick Cabill, aged respectively 9…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident to a Submarine Plunges on the Rocks. Coolness of Captain and Men. London, March 23
Owing to a misunderstanding of an order, tho French sub-marine "Ventors," while manoeuvering at Cherbourg suddenly plunged and struck on…
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Two Japanese steamers collided near Hakodate. The captain and crew numbering 43, and 200 passengers perished…
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Miss Ellen M'Mahon, of Albert Park, V., alighted from the train at the Richmond Railway Station before it had stopped. The young woman was swept off her feet as soon…
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A foolhardy attempt to swim the Peel River in flood at Tamworth, N.S.W., resulted in the deaths of a young man, Richard Ponsonby. Against his friend's advice, he…
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A ballast train at Blackall ran into a bullock on the line, and several trucks were derailed. Patrick Callahan was killed instantly, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sensational Fatality. a Circus Leap. London, April 1
An acrobat leaping from the roof of a circus at erlin messed the net below and was killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Accident near Jonee. Trucks Derailed. a Fireman Injured
At about 0.30 on Thursday night an accident occurred about four miles from Junee station on a down grade running into Harefield…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Case. Werris Creek Accident. a Passengers Claim. Mr. Bealby Smith Receives £1150. SYDNEY
In the action Smith versus the Railway Commissioners, concluded to-day, the jury awarded the plaintiff £1150 damages…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Old Houses Collapse. Thirty People Buried. Several Killed: Others Injured. London, April 6
Two old houses adjoining Berner'e Hotel in Oxford-street, collapsed early to-day, burying 30 people, mostly foreign servants employed at Berner's…
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