Fatality at Botany
The Water Police, who have been searching un-interruptedly through Monday and Tuesday for the bodies of the men drowned in Sunday's accident, report that they have so far discovered no…
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Accident to a Coal Train. [By Telegraph.) (From Our Own Correspondent.) Wollongong
Yesterday, while a coal train, consisting of 10 waggons from Kembla mine, was crossing the main road, it collided with a cow. The concussion caused the leading waggon to jump off the rails, the remaining nine waggons also…
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An inquest was held by the acting coroner at the South Sydney Morgue yesterday afternoon, regarding the death of a man named John Williamson, watchman on board the steam launch Royal Shepherd, who was drowned in the…
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The Acting City Coroner (Captain Fisher) held as inquest, at the South Sydney Morgue on Wednesday, into the circumstances attending the death of John Williamson. Deceased was 37…
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An inquest was held at the South Sydney Morgue yesterday, before the acting-coroner, Mr. A. M. Fisher touching the death of a man named John Williamson, who was drowned in…
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LONDON, September 28.—M. Waddington, the French Ambassador in London, has met with an accident in France, and fractured his collarbone. He will be unable to attend to his duties in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Mixing Accident at Newcastle. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Newcastle
An accident occurred in the A. A. Company's colliery to-day, by which a minor named Enoch Smith lost his life. He was working in his place in No. 1 district, when the full top band came away, striking him on the head and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Latest Intelligenge. [By Electric Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Accident to M. Waddington. London, Sept. 28
M. Waddington, French Ambassador in London, has met with an accident in France. He fractured his collar-bone, and will probably be disabled for a month…
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W. J. Rivers, a seaman belonging to the dredge Charon, while on board the tag Scylla, and when I the vessel was passing by the vicinity of the Pyrmont Baths, heard cries for assistance, and saw a…
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The Acting City Coroner (Captain Fisher) held an inquest this morning, at the Assembly Hotel, Phillip and Hunter streets, touching the death of Oresto Scardigli, a wharf laborer. Deceased…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Botany Bay Fatality. Finding of a Body
Our Kogarah correspondent wires that two fishermen named Smith and Bignell, whilst proceeding from Botany to Lady Robinson's Beach, this morning, discovered one of the missing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coroner's Inquests. Extraordinary Tram Accident
At the South Sydney Morgue yesterday, the Acting Coroner, Captain Fisher, J.P., resumed the inquest begun on Saturday last, touching the death of a man named William Kirby, a motor-driver, who was killed on the…
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About 7 o'clock this morning the body of David Crichton, another of the artillerymen, was recovered about 1½ miles from Doll's Point, near the month of George's River, by…
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The acting-City Coroner (Captain Fisher) held an inquest at the South Sydney Morgue Jthia morning into the circumstances attending the death of Frank Barbour. The deceased was one…
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A shocking tramway accident occurred on the afternoon of the 23rd ultimo, and resulted in the almost instantaneous death of the motor-driver, W. Kirby. It appears that motor No. 79, in charge of Kirby, with W. Treaves as…
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The inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of William Kirby, the tram driver who was killed by the upsetting of a motor in Moore Park on Friday, the 23rd inst., was…
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A boat accident by which four lives were lost, happened in Botany Bay on Saturday. Between four and five o'clock five men of the Permanent Artillery went out in a boat with…
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The following have been attended in the Sydney Hospital:—Bernard M'Gill, 25, cabman, Francis-street, cut head; Mary Ann Flinn, 12, St. John's-court, injury to elbow, caused by her…
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A man named Richardson had a miraculous escape yesterday while driving home to Little River. The cart-horse shied at some object on the side of the road and bolted at a breakneck…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident to a Coal Train
On Monday, while a coal train, consisting of 10 waggons from Kembla mine, was crossing the main rood, it collided with a cow. The concussion caused the leading waggon to jump off the rails, the remaining nine waggons also…
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