Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Accidents, all years

Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1888

3,423 stories in Sydney's papers · page 37 of 172

Australian. Victoria. Shocking Accident

The Australian Star · Friday 6 April 1888 · page 5

INGLEWOOD, Thursday,--A shocking accident occurred to-day. A butcher boy named Stewart, who was driving a cart at a furious rate, ran over a child. The…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 April 1888 · page 5

A serious buggy accident occurred in Blighstreet yesterday. It appears that while Mr. Patrick Burke, contractor for the Militaryroad, Bondi, was driving along…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Found Drowned

The Australian Star · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, This Day.--The body of the man found near the Southern break, water yesterday morning has been identified as Thomas James, aged 61, living with…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

The Boating Fatality

The Australian Star · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 6

MELBOURNE, This Day.-- Regarding the boating accident, in which the lad Prosser was drowned, a correspondent asserts that the steamer Excelsior was…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Railway Collision in Victoria

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 761

A railway collision occurred last Saturday on the Daylesford line between a goods trains and a passenger train. It is a single line, worked on the block system. The fireman of the goods train fell off the…

Continued on Trove, page 761 →

Drowned in a Well

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 7
Also in The Daily Telegraph

An inquest was held by the City Coroner, at the Lord Carrington Hotel, Balmain, yesterday, concerning the death of a boy named August Lee Thuaux, whose dead body was found in a well upon his parents' promises, No, 45,…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Case of Drowning in the Darling

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 768

An inquest was hold last week, on the body of J. T. Smith, who was drowned in the Darling on the 26th ult., Dr. Sides held a post-mortem examination, and deposed that death was caused by drowning. From the evidence…

Continued on Trove, page 768 →

Shocking Fatality on the Railway

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 767

A very sad fatality happened on the 29th nit., at the level crossing at Homebush, a gatekeeper named Isaac Worrall and a little girl named Nellie Maude Woolley being run over and killed toy the 6.30 p.m. passenger train from…

Continued on Trove, page 767 →

Drowned in a Well. Another Case

The Australian Star · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 5

A nor named Henry Bates, aged eight years, and living with his parents in Lord- street, North Shere, was drowned, in a well off Edward-street yesterday while…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

The Drowning of a Boy at Balmain. Fell into a Well

The Australian Star · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 8

MR. SHELL, City Coroner, held an inquest to-day at the Lord Carrington Hotel, Balmain, on the body of August Leo Thuaux, a child aged seven years and…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Terrible Railway Accident. a Real Hero

Nepean Times · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 4

One of the most terrible railway accidents which have yet blackened the records of New South Wales occured at Homebush on Thursday week, and through which a pretty girl of 7 years, named…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Boating Accident in Port Phillip Bay. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 11

A shocking boating accident occurred in Port Phillip Bay on Good Friday, in which four young men, wellknown residents of Port Melbourne, were concerned. Their names are—William Grundy, Claude Hadley,…

Continued on Trove, page 11 →

Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 3

James Kelly, a laborer, was working on a building in Campbell-street, yesterday, when he overbalanced and fell through a skylight, a distance of about 10ft. He was taken to the…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Drowned

The Australian Star · Monday 9 April 1888 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, This Day.--At the inquest to-day on the body of Thomas James, found near the southern breakwater yesterday, a verdict of found drowned was…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Found Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 April 1888 · page 3
Also in The Australian Star

The City Coroner held an inquest at the South Sydney Morgue on Saturday on the remains of a man named James Dockrill, who was found drowned in Cook's River on the previous…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Drowned in a Well

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 April 1888 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

An inquest was held before the City Coroner on Saturday into the circumstances attending the death of a boy named Henry Bates, who was drowned in a well at North Shore on the…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Drowned in the Harbour

The Australian Star · Monday 9 April 1888 · page 5

A MAN named Thomas H. Monk, aged 22 years, was drowned in the harbour at the foot of Market-street about noon on Saturday. Two seamen, named Taylor and…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →