Painful Accident
A railway employee, William Leeson, while loading rails to-day, met with a rather painful accident. He was lifting a rail, which Isipped and…
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Fatal Accident
Superintendent Grudgeon, officer in charge of the south-west police district, was severely injured in a buggy accident at Deniliquin yesterday, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Driving Fatality. Police Superintendent Killed. a Popular Officer. Sydney
A telegram from Deniliquin stated that Superintendent Grugeon, of the South-western Police District, had been seriously injured as the result of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Smash. Narrow Escape From Disaster Melbourne Express in Collision. Goods Train Overruns Points. Junee
By the narrowest possible margin the Sydney to Melbourne express missed being wrecked in collision with a stationary goods engine, aud a train…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sensational Accident. Train Runs Down Motor. Doctor and Niece Killed. Shocking Injuries. Auckland
A motor car driven by Dr. Fullerton was crashed into by a train at the level crossing at Wallacetown. The car was thrown by the engine into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Accident. Fall at Barrenjack. One Man Killed. Sydney
A telegram received at Yass from Barren Jack states that a terrible accident occurred there this morning. No particulars are forwarded but it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Affray. Man Badly Injured. Sydney
During a quarrel between men at joinery works, Pyrmont, George Green, aged 21, was struck on the head with an iron turnkey. He was conveyed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Disastrous Fire. Five Firemen Missing. Many Injured. Vancouver. Jan. 11
Five firemen engaged in suppressing a fire at Cincinnatti, Ohio, are missing. A score of others were injured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Barren Jack Accident YASS
The accident at Barren Jack was not as serious as at first thought. It appears a train drawing a load of sand was running to the works when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hundreds of Sheep Drowned. Warwick
More than Goo sheep, the property of Messrs. Lomas, Brunckhurst, and Gilmour, have been drowned at Emu Creek, Canning Downs, through…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →General Cables. Railway Collision. New York, Jan. 15
Six persons were killed and 18 injured by a collision on the New York Central railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Collision. Two Drivers and Stoker Killed. London, Jan. 16
A passenger train from Paris to Viere, when near the latter place, collided with a ballast train. The two drivers and a stoker were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shocking Fatality. Explosion of Gelignite. Head Blown Off. Sydney
Alfred Warner, 40, met with a shocking death of Fern Hill yesterday. He was working in a low level sewe and descended the shaft…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Electrocuted. Accident on Dredge. Wellington (N.z.)
John Burns, employed on the Dunedin harbor dredge, when climbing a derrick to fasten some tackle, caught hold of the electric wires above, which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Peculiar Fatality. Slip on Platform. Sydney
Miss Susan Pearce, 54, arrived in Sydney this morning from Moree, and was stepping off the train at the Central Railway Station when she slipped…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aspendale Park. Backers Do Well.—A Dead-Heat for the Summer Cup.—Celerity still Good.—A Jockey Seriously Injured
Cool, pleasant weather was responsible for a large attendance at Aspendale Park last Saturday. The fields were good, and the racing throughout excellent. Results…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Motor Fatality. Women Hurled Into River Bed. One Dashed to Pieces. Adelaide
A serious motor accident occurred between 8 and 9 o'clock to-night at Lyudoch. A motor-car, driven by Bert May, and carrying his wife, his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accidents to Battleships
An explosion on an American battleship killed eight men. Twenty-seven men escaped from a sunken German submarine by creeping…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident
An accident of a serious nature befell Mrs. McKinnon, senr., whilst [?] home to Methul during the week with her son,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Perils of the 'Chase. Rider Seriously Injured. Melbourne
A serious accident was associated with the Steeplechase at Caulfield yesterday. During the running of the race Exile, Acute Angle, and…
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