A Mining Fatality
TEMORA, Saturday.-An elderly man Owen Carraher, working in Tynan'-e Lead, with a fatal accident on Friday. It appears is was going down the shaft to the face when the…
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The Collision of the Steamer Katoomba
The damage done by the A. U. S. N. steamer Katooma at Brishane consisted of crushing a punt loaded with coal and sinking her, and afterwards running into the T of the Railway Whurf, doing some damage to it; the vessel herself not…
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A most peculiar accident, and to say the least of it, an uncommon one of the kind, was treated at the Sydney Hospital on Saturday. During the fire that occurred at Messrs. Gordon and…
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IN the District Court to-day, before his Honor Judge Fitzhardinge, Laurence J. Newell sued John M'Elhone, jun., for £9 7s 6d for damage to a horse and buggy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident at the Wallsend Colliery. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Newcastle
An accident happened at the Wallsend Colliery yesterday to a man named Jenkin Rees, which it is feared will be fatal. It appears that the man was working at the pillars while the deputy overman was setting timber…
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LONDON, February 4.-A terrible collision has occurred off Dungenness, in the English channel, between the steamer Nereid and the Killochan, bound from Lyttelton (New Zealand) to London…
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SILVERTON, Monday. -- A very sad boating fatality occurred at Terowie on Saturday night. Three lads were out boating on Lake Hiles, and one named B. Cook dived off the boat. A squall…
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BRISBANE, This Day.--As a laborer named Charles Morris was burning off near Ipswich, a tree fell and pinned him to the ground, killing him instantly…
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The adjourned inquiry concerning the death of Rosio Ellen Heigoway, who was killed by a train in Castlereagh-street, Redfern, on the evening of the 81st ult., was resumed yesterday…
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At the South Sydney morgue yesterday morning, the Acting Coroner, Mr. J. C. Woore, J. P., concluded the inquest concerning the death of the child, Rosie Ellen Heighway, who was killed by a tram at Redfern…
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BROKEN HILL, Monday.-The Terowie correspondent of the SILVER AGE telegraphed on Sunday that three lads named Benjamin Cook, Mark Cook, and Statton, aged 17, 12, and 16…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Steamer Cut in Two. Collision Between a Cunard Liner and a French Steamer
The Canard line of steamers has been noted for its exemption from loss of life by accident; and this characteristic was fully borne oat in the recent collision between the Canard steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Smash in Belgium. Fourteen Killed and Fifty Injured. London, February 4
A railway accident is reported from Brussels. The disaster resulted in 14 persons being killed and 50 injured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Second Edition. Fatal Collision in the English Channel. Two Vessels Sunk. Twenty-four Lives Lost. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondents.) London, Feb. 4
The steamer Nereid, while passing down the English Channel, and while off Dungeness, collided with the Killochan, bound from Lyttelton, New Zealand. Both…
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At the adjourned inquest held yesterday at the South Sydney morgue, before the Acting Coroner, touching the death of a child named Rosa Ellen Heigbway, aged 5 years last April, a…
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A laborer named Alexander Miffen, aged 17 years, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital last evening by Dr. A. G. Henry, suffering from a piece of needle being broken in his breast bone…
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YOUNG, Monday.-Mr. William King, of Kingsville, about seven miles from Young, met with a nasty accident on Saturday. He was feeding a chaff-cutting machine with short hay, and his…
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OWEN Bryant, 25, a carter, residing at 498 Elizabeth-street, Surry Hills, this morning was filling his dray in Newtown, when some earth above him, becoming…
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Mr. W.T. PINHEY, J.P., held a magisterial inquiry to-day, concerning the death of Arthur Read, aged 3 years, who died on Sunday last, at the Prince Alfred Hospital…
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THE adjourned inquest into the circumstances s attending the death of Rosie Heighway, aged 5 years, who was killed by a trim motor on Thursday night last at…
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