Drowning Accident
BRISBANE, Friday.--A tatal mishap occurred last night. A couple were crossing from the A.S.N. Company's wharf to the steamer Barcoo upon a plank, which gave way, and both were…
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Terrible Collision at Sea. 365 Passengers Drowned
THE public has been shocked many times of late by the announcement of collisions and losses of vessels at sea, and another horror is added to the many by the intelligence received on Tuesday of…
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LONDON, January 31.—Intelligence has just been received from Bahia that Messrs. Trinder, Anderson, and Company's ship Kapunda, 1095 tons, from London December 11, and Plymonth…
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Intelligence has just been received from Bahia that Messrs. Trinder, Anderson, and Company's ship Kapunda, 1095 tons, from London December 11, aud Plymouth the 18th…
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Foreman (who has been acrose the street): For th' love av hivin, byes, how manny len'ths av poipe did yez lay phwile Oi wuz gettin' me dhrop o' bee?" Assiatant: " T'ree, sor, fiftheen fate each."…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The Sydney express yesterday morning carried away the gates at a crossing near Euroe (Vic.) and killed the gatekeeper, Hoskens, while he was engaged…
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New York, Sunday.--News of a terrible railway accident has just been received. The express train from Boston to Montreal yesterday left the rails while…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.--A great number of fatalities have been reported daring the past two days. Mackay wires that Henry James Wallace and his wife were drowned late on…
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News of a terrible railway accident has just been received. The express train from Boston for Montreal yesterday left the rails while crossing a bridge over the White River…
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GOULBURN, Monday.--A sad accident occurred on the Braidwood-road, a few miles from Goulburn, yesterday afternoon, resulting in the death of a young woman named Alice Carter,…
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London, Monday.--The latest accounts with regard to the accident on the White River Bridge, Vermont, by which the Boston-Montreal express was…
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Further particulars have been received of the terrible-railway accident, to the express train from Boston for Montreal, which left the rails while Crossing a bridge over the White…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.--The steamer Rodondo, which left Townsville on Friday evening for Brisbane and Sydney, was disabled on Saturday at the Whitsunday Passage, where she lost the…
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PERTH, Tuesday.--Governor Broome was injured on Monday night by the bursting of a cartridge during ball practice at his summer residence, Rottnesst Island. His forehead was…
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Yesterday morning the City Coroner held an inquest at the Soudan Hotel, the subject of which was the death of John Tender, a quarryman, who was found drowned on the previous…
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The City Coroner, Mr. H. Shiell, J. P., held an inquest yesterday at the Soudan Hotel, Lower George-street, touching the death of a man named John Tender, 62 years of age, whose body was found on Tuesday in the waters of Kerosene…
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A second inquest was held by the City Coroner at the Soudan Hotel yesterday morning, touching the death of Thomas Golding, a laborer, who was found drowned near Garden…
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An inquest was also held yesterday by the City Coroner, at the Soudan Hotel, concerning the death of a man named Thomas Golding, 35 years of ago, whose body was found floating in the water near Garden Island…
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GOULBURN, Wednesday.--A female child who was in the buggy from which Miss Alice Carter jumped and was killed on Sunday last, on the Braidwood-road, has succumbed to the…
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Yesterday afternoon the City Coroner held an inquest at the Assembly Hotel relative to the death of a little boy named Arthur Ernest Wooller, who met with fatal injuries in…
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