Fatal Gun Accident
ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--A fatal accident occurred to a man named Edward Parkes, at Paratoo station; he was employed vermin killing, when in the act of drinking from his water bag,…
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Rescue From Drowning
A plucky rescue from drowning took place about half-past 6 o'clock in the evening on Wednesday last. A youth about 14 years of age fell off a Balmain steamer, midway between…
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A SHOCKING fatality occurred on the railway line at Tighe's Hill, last night, to Stoker, a fireman of a coal train. The Waratah Company's engine was dragging a heavy train near the…
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A dreadful accident occurred in Maitland at about 10 a.m. to-day, and resulted in the death of Mrs. Dean, a well-known resident of Anambah. It appears that the deceased, who is about 70…
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A COMPLETE chapter of accidents is reported here. In addition to the killing of John Stoker at Tighe's Hill, the large fire, the sudden death of the Roman Catholic schoolmaster, the fall of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident to the Steamship Konoowarra. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne
Intelligence has been received from Wilson's Promontory, stating that Messrs. W. H. Smith and Son's steamship Konoowarra passed there at half-past 10 o'clock this morning. She signalled that she had [?]…
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WEST MAITLAND, Thursday.--A fatal accident occurred at Campbell's Hill, West Maitland, this morning. A married woman, named Mary Ann Deane, was driving into town from Annonbar with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatality at Newcastle. (By Telegraph. From Our Correspondent.) Newcastle
A SHOCKING fatality ocourred on the raliway line at Tighe's Hill, last night, to Stoker, a fireman of a coal train. The "Waratah Company's engine was dragging a heavy train near the…
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Mr. Evan Evans, of Penrose, Dapto, a leading resident of the district, met with a serious accident yesterday afternoon. While he was riding his stirrup leather broke, and he was thrown…
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An inquest was held on Thursday by the coroner (Mr. A. Vindin) upon the body of Mrs. Mary Ann Dean, whose death was reported on Thursday last. The medical testimony showed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The ACCIDENT to the S.S. Konoowarra. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne
The steamship Konooworra arrived this morning, all well. At 4 o'clock yesterday morning, when the vessel was going dead slow through a dense fog, she struck on what is known as Cliffy Island,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Dreadful Railway Accident in Canada
The papers to hand by the last mail give fall particulars of the terrible railway accident which occurred in Canada at Che beginning of the present year. The disaster, which happened just west of Toronto, was due to a collision…
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Intelligence has been received from Wilson's Promontory, stating that Messrs. W. H. Smith and Son's steamship Konoowarra passed there at half-past 10 o'clock this morning. She signalled that she had run…
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Yesterday morning, at about 7 o'clock, the dead body of a seaman named John Shannon, aged 53 years, belonging to the s.s. Ajax, lying at Cockatoo wharf, was discovered drowned in a waterhole, not…
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Last evening about 7 o'clock Captain Dalton, of the steamer Kingsley, reported to Inspector Donohoe, of the Water Police, that a man named Henry Gale had fallen overboard from his vessel and had been…
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Last night at 7 o'clock, Captain Dalton, master of the steamer Kingsley, reported at the W [?]er Police station that at 1.30 yesterday morning, while his vessel was about a mile and a half off the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Alleged Steamship Race and Collision. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Adelaide
It is said that when the steamer Adelaide left Melbourne on her last trip the steamer Wairarapa and she raced down to the Heads. The Wairarapa had the lead passing the Saltwater…
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Owing to the high breeze which sprang up late on Saturday afternoon, an accident befell a small boat which, unfortunately, resulted fatally. Towards dusk it appears that several gentlemen were sailing down…
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To Julius Strahl, a seaman belonging to the ship Freihert, not lying at the Colonial Sugar Company's wharf, a very serious accident occurred on Saturday evening by his falling down the hold from the 'tween…
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An accident of a very painful, though not serious, nature occurred on Saturday on Messrs. Amos's contract, on the Homebush and Hawkesbury railway at No. 1 tunnel. The patient, a labourer named James…
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