Two Drowning Cases. BRISBANE
Doctor Mertel, of Goondiwindi, was missing since Friday evening, and search being made, his body was found in the river. The body of David Sinclair, who was drowned…
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The Late Accident in King-street
The accident when occurred last Monday in King-street to a young lady turned out more serious than was at first anticipated. The facts of the case are these :—Miss broomfield, daughter of Captain…
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At about noon on Saturday, an accident of a curious nature occurred in George-street. A child of Mr. Slater, named Mary Ann, 11 years of age, was playing in a room in the…
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Julius Johnson, aged 20, s [?]man on board the Resolute, at Towns's wharf, was taken to this Infirmary on Saturday suffering from injuries caused by falling down the forehatch of the ship. James…
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A little girl, aged 2 years and 3 months, the daughter of a farmer named Enright, was killed in Mudgee on Saturday. The poor little thing was asleep in a cart when the horse bolted, and the…
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A bullock on the railway line this morning, near Gerogery, caused a truck bringing rails to capsize. The truck was smashed, and Walter Wright, a labourer, riding in it, was killed. Another man was so seriously…
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An accident, involving the death of two with and serious injuries to another occurred yesterday morning in the railway line under construction from Gerogery to Albury. An engine, [?] six…
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John Donolly, aged 10, living in Athlone Place, was run over yesterday morning by a cart in [?]-street, and received some injuries to his ankle. He was removed to the inf[?]. A Similar accident…
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A fatal accident occurred at the Wickham railway crossing yesterday evening, at 5 p.m., whilst a goods train and passenger train were passing each other, a child named Marguerita Lowden,…
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A boy named Brunton got his left arm severely crushed between two rollers at Arnott's steam biscuit factory this morning. He was removed to Dr. Kn[?]gg's surgery, where his injuries were…
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A magisterial inquiry was held yesterday morning at the Bridge Hotel, Balmain, before Mr. W. T. Pinhey, J.P., touching the death of a child named George Henry Laidlaw, who had been…
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Yesterday afternoon, as the ship Smyrna was being towed out from the Circular Quay, one of the newly shipped seamen jumped overboard with the intention of swimming ashore. It seems that he overrated his…
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At the inquest yesterday on the child Marguerita Louden who met her death the previous evening by being run over by a train at the Wickham crossing, the verdict was "accidental…
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A shocking accident occurred on Sunday, October 3, at the Roman Catholic church of St. Aloy[?]ius, Ardwick, Manchester. Whilst the congregation of between 400 and 500 persons were present…
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OUR Albury correspondent writes—The details of the accident on the railway line, of which I advised you by telegram, are as follows:—At half-past 5 o'olook on Saturday morning, the contractors' engine…
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Henry Dawson, steward on board the steamer Lusitania, was thrown out of Cotton's Hotel, in Bourke-street, on Saturday, during a drunken quarrel, and received a fracture of the tibula and…
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A horrible catastrophe has occurred on the Ebro, at Logrono, a town of 16,000 inha[?]. The military pontooners had laid a bridge [?] the river, which was much swollen late…
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An accident occurred at the railway station on Saturday last to an employee of Wright, [?], and Co., named Vince C[?]. It appears Curr was loading a lorry, and used a wheelbarrow to run…
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Another death by drowning has taken place. The victim, a child aged six years, named George Henry Laidlaw, was throwing sticks into a well at Balmain when he overreached himself and fell into…
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A shocking railway accident occurred on Thursday (says the Age) when the 8 O'clock Echuca train ran over a man, name unknown, near the Munday-street railway gates. The man was about 40 years…
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