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A peculiar fatal accident happened at Ballarat to-day. A drover, who had come to the cattle- yards with some stock, was sitting on the top rail of a fence, and while lighting his pipe…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A serious railway accident is reported to have occurred in Roumelia. The casualties are heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Last evening an elderly man named Francis Dickens was about to step on board the Erskine-street ferry boat, when he missed hie footing and fell into Darling Harbour. Fortunately the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN inquest was held on Monday last before the district Coroner, Mr. J. K. Lethbridge, to inquire into the death of an infant named Albert Young, who was drowned on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Late on Thursday night a man named Gray, endeavouring to board the Brighton, which is lying alongside the Garonne, slipped, fell between the two Teasels, and was drowned. The Water Police…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday afternoon, an accident, which resulted fatally, occurred on the Botany tram line. A tram which leaves Sydney at 2.30, had arrived at Gardener's-lane loop when a man, to all appearance…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another fatal accident has to be set down to the long catalogue due to the presence of the steam motor in our streets. The victim is a widower named Richard Sayers, aged 40, a resident of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Saturday afternoon the city coroner (Mr. H. Shiell, J.P.) hold an inquest on the body of the man Richard Sayers, a labourer, 41 years of age, who was killed on the Botany line near to Gardiner's-lane…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another life has been lost and several endangered for want of a bridge over the river between Liverpool and Holdsworthy. A little after 4 p.m. on Sunday, a young woman named Mary Taylor, carrying an infant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquest was held on Saturday afternoon, at the South Sydney Morgue, by Mr. H. Shiell, J.P., City Coroner, on the body of the man Richard Sayers, who was knocked down and run over by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday afternoon an accident of a serious nature happened to a little girl, daughter of Mr. Fogarty, publican, of Devonshire-street. She was playing in the balcony of the upper story, and some…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Daring the recent gale a heavy sea, broke over the forecastle of the steamer Buninyong, while off Newcastle Heads. Foot seamen of the vessel engaged in the forecastle head were struck by tho water…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This morning William Momson, a labourer, was admitted to the hospital suffering from dreadful injuries to his left hand. He was engaged at Brown's ironworks, and by some means got his hand…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Last Sunday afternoon four young men were having a sail round the harbour, and at the same time indulging in a little chaff with the girls on the emigrant ship lying at anchor. One climbed the mast…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →About 3 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon (says the "Bury Free Press" of recent date) an accident occurred on the tramway at Huddersfield, by which five persons lost their lives and about 20 were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →This morning, a serious accident occurred to a man named William Connolly, employed aa a carter. While driving at Lone Cove he fell off his cart, one of the wheels of which passed over his body, crashing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An action was commenced yesterday in the Banco Court, before Sir James Martin, C.J., and a jury of four, for the purpose of recovering £2000 damages from the Commissioner for Railways for a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An accident of an alarming character occurred this morning at the level crossing near the railway station, Newtown. A boy, apparently about eight rears of age, attempted to cross the line just as the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Henry Branch, aged 17 years, a jockey, was admitted to the hospital early this morning, suffering from severe concussion of the brain and other injuries. It appears that Branch is employed at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An appalling mining accident, by which 12 lives were lost, occurred in Cornwall on Wednesday, August 15. The night men working in the Wheat Agar mine, near Redruth, were being brought to the surface at 7 a.m. in the gig, or,…
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