Bathing Fatality. Melbourne
While bathing on the Sandringham Beach, Melbourne, to-day, two girls dropped into a hole and sank. One of them, Mary Crighton, aged 15, was…
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Railway Fatality. Fettlers Run Down. Sydney
A gang of [?] were run down by a train in a tunnel near Woy Wov yesterday. One man, named Julius Christiansen, was killed almost instantaneously…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatality at Albury. Returned Soldier Killed. Albury
James Mansfield (35), a returned soldier, was killed last night through falling off the railway bridge over the Murray. He bad been employed since…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →British Troop Train. Couplings Break. 10 Killed and 40 Injured. Paris
An accident occurred to a British troop train nine miles from Paris, 10 being killed and 32 injured. The train contained 1300 rank and file and 210…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Serious Railway Accident Broken Hill Express in Collision. Thirty-five Injured. Sydney
A collision occurred between the Broken Hill express and a goods train, 35 people being injured, sonic seriously, but no deaths have been reported…
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There was another narrow escape from drowning in the Murrumbidgee on Sunday morning. Ben Koth, a married man, and William Bunt, 19,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The London Disaster. Further Details. Suffering of the Injured. London
Further details regarding the munitions Factory disaster are becoming available. An eye-witness of the removal of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sad Accident. Mother and Baby ; Burned to Death. Sydney
Airs, victoria Alison and her fifteen days Did daughter were fatally burned—in their home at South Kensington, Victoria., It is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Fatal Accidents. Sydney
A chapter of fatal accidents occurred in Sydney to-day. A horse attached to a lorry holted in Bourke-street, Surry Hills, and…
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Joseph Geale was driving a horse in a trotting spider on the flat near the Wagga Pound yard yesterday afternoon, when the animal lashed out and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Discoveries by Accident
Felt-making, which has now attained such huge proportions, had a very humble origin. A man of substance, who suffered from cold feet,…
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One of the navvies engaged on the duplication works near Cootamundra was starting off with his drayload on Saturday morning, when a train…
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A rather painful accident befel the little five-year-old daughter of Mr. J. Smith, of Stony Point, one evening last week. She was riding a pet…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Earthquake at Java 50 DEATHS; 200 Injured. Amsterdam
A serious earthquake occurred o[?] the Island of Java. Fifty natives were killed and 21 Injured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collision at Sea. London
A collision occurred this afternoon off South Reef between the steamer Victoria, which was making a trial trip, and the American schooner Annie…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shot by His Father. Boy's Accidental Death. Sydney
Walter William Parker, aged 9, was accidentally shot by his father at Little Plain, in the Inverell district. Crows had been killing the poultry, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shooting Fatality at Bathurst
Two boys, Reginald Bolton, 16 years of age, and Rupert Rhodes 17 1/2 years, while dut[?]at a picnic on Friday left to go out rabbit shooting, taking…
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Mr. George Hunt and his two sons were bathing in the River Hawkesbury yesterday, when Frederick, aged 10, got into difficulties. The father swam out…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bathing Fatality on Hawkesbury. Father and Sons in Difficulties. Sydney
At Windsor, on the Hawkesbury River, yesterday George Hunt and his two sons were bathing. Frederick Hunt, agen ten, got out of his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sad Fatality. Shot by a Companion. Sydney
Mr. M.T. Newland, manger of the East Bungaree Station, South Australia, was accidentally shot dead when out in the scrub. Deceased called his…
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