Drowned
ROCKHAMPTON, This Day.-- Ernest Flannigan, a boy eight years of age, has been drowned in the Fitzroy River. He is supposed to have fallen in while…
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Found Drowned
A BODY of a girl named Elisabeth Cooper was found floating in the harbour near the Iron Cove Bridge, Balmain, yesterday by a man named John Martin. The remains…
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MR. SHIELL, City Coroner, resumed the inquest to-day at the Coroner's Court, King-street, into the circumstances attending the death of Samuel Goodman,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Accident Near Granville. Collision Between Two Goods Trains. Considerable Damage to Rolling Stock
A railway collision involving considerable damage to rolling-stock but fortunately unattended by loss of life happened at what is known as the Woodville-road crossing, about a…
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A railway accident, fortunately unattended with loss of life, occurred near Granville Junction early yesterday morning. The express goods train which departs from Sydney at 4.40 a.m., and which carries the morning newspapers, ran…
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The inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of the cabman Charles Goodman, who died in the Sydney Hospital on Monday last from the effects of injuries received through…
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The City Co[?]oner held an inquest at the Soudan Hotel, Lower George-street, yesterday, touching the death of a young woman named Elizabeth Cooper, who was found drowned in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Collision at Granville. Two Goods Trains Collide. a Driver Injured. an Engine and Seven Trucks Wrecked
SHORTLY after five o’clock on Thursday morning the down express goods train, No. 23, popularly known as the “ newspaper express,” left the Granville platform, and the…
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BRISBANE, Friday.--A collision took place in the river, just before 6 o'clock this evening, between Howard Smith and Sons' steamer Derwent and the Government steam-ing Otter…
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YESTERDAY afternoon the city Coroner held an inquest at the Soudan Hotel on the body of Elizabeth Cooper, a young woman who was found drowned yesterday…
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BRISBANE, This Day.--A serious collisions occurred on the Brisbane River yesterday evening between the Government steamer otter, Captain Page, and Howard Smith…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Collision in the Brisbane River. the Steamer Derwent Damaged. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Brisbane
At 5.40 this evening the steamer Derwent was proceeding down the river, bound for Maryborough. When rouuding Bulimba Point she was caught by a strong flood tide and carried over the wrong side of the river…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Serious Accident at St. Marys. a Man's Hand Sawn in Half Amputated at the Wrist
On Thursday morning last a very serious and painful accident occurred at Turner Brothers saw mill, St. Marys. We are informed that the victim, Mr. James Campbell, was cutting short wood, when, by…
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At about 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Dr. Evans, junr., was called to attend to a Frenchman named Duplay, of the steamer "Ocean Queen," now lying at Mort's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident to a Patent Slip. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Brisbane
The steamer Barrabool, when leaving for the south last week, ran into the ways at Moar's Patent Slip, Kangaroo Point, and considerably damaged them. The Dolphin, a tender belonging to the A. U. S. N…
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Information reached Burrowa on the evening of the 16th, that Mr. Patrick Hardiman, second son of Mr. James Hardiman, grazier, met with a fatal accident by being thrown against a tree in Springfield paddocks. The accident happened…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A lad named John Duffy, aged 10, the son of a railway guard, was bathing in the West Melbourne swamp with a number of other boys, when a man named…
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BRISBANE, This Day.--A little girl, three years of age, named Ellen Rowlingson, daughter of a farmer residing at Boggy Crees, was drowned in a waterhole about…
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YESTERDAY afternoon the City Coroner held an inquest at the Soudan Hotel on the body of Elisabeth Cooper, a young woman who was found drowned yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatal Accident at Ballan. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne
A fatal accident occurred at Ballan on Friday evening to Walter Walker, a draper and storekeeper. He was engaged in unloading firewood from a cart in his yard. In order to keep his horse steady he put the…
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