Railway Accident at Croydon
For some time during the early part of yesterday morning the up line in the vicinity of the Croydon Railway Station was blocked. The delay was caused by an accident to a goods…
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Fatal Boat Accident on Lake Torrens. Three Lives Lost. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Adelaide
A shocking fatal boat accident occurred on Torrens Lake on Wednesday night. A twin boat, with a deck between, propelled by a screw, worked by hand, was tried on the water as a pleasure boat…
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AT the Coroner's Court this afternoon, an inquest was held before the acting coroner, Mr. J. C. Woore, J.P., into the circumstances surrounding the death of…
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ADELADE, This Day. -- A boating fatality occurred on the Torrens Lake last night. An open air concert was being held, when a new pleasure boat -- propelled by a screw…
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A FATAL cab accident occurred in Elizabeth-street, Redfern, last night. It appears that two cabs were proceeding at a fast pace alone, the street, when one of the cabs…
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ADELAIDE, Friday.--An inquest was held to-day, on the bodies of two men, A. E. Usher and A. F. Smith, and a boy named Thomas, who were drowned in the Torrens Lake through the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Serious Accident on the Nepean Bridge. Two Horses Severely Injured
The Government, as many of our readers will be aware, have been for some little time past repairing the road track of the bridge that spans the Nepean, the worn planks being taken up and replaced by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Boating Fatality on the Torrens Lake. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Adelaide
The inquest in connection, with the fatal boat accident on the Torrens Lake on Wednesday night, which involved the loss of three lives, showed that the boat was improperly constructed and was utterly…
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A painful, but not serious accident happened on the Agricultural Ground this morning to a jockey named Jerry M'Cormack, 17, residing at No. [?]7, Cleveland-street. While riding a racehorse in…
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The Acting-Coroner, Mr. J. C. Woore, J.P., held an inquest at the South Sydney Morgue yesterday afternoon relative to the death of a cabman named Sydney Denham, aged 31 years, who died from the effects of a…
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A man named Matthew Wm. Throupe was killed at the Proprietary mine last Saturday, by fulling down an ore-pass, a depth of 66ft. The pass had not been worked for months, and that portion of the mine is not…
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A fatal accident occurred at the Miami colliery on the 15th, whereby a miner named William Durrant lost his life. It appears that he had a horse attached to a skip, which was off its track,…
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Adelaide, This Day.-- The jury have re[?] a verdict of accidental drowning in connection with the fatal boat accident on [?]Lake. The evidence showed…
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Jeremiah M'Cormack, aged 17, residing with his parents at 97 Cleveland-street, was riding a horse at the Agricultural Grounds yesterday, when it swerved and threw him on to his head…
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An inquiry was subsequently held into the circumstances attending the death of a cabman named Sydney Denham, aged 31, who fell from his vehicle late on Thursday night while driving…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—On Sunday afternoon, about half-past 2 o'clock, a train from Melbourne reached Collingwood station. At this point, in order to carry passengers to Heidelberg, the train…
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BRISBANE, This Day. -- A collision occurred on Saturday afternoon between the steamer Barcoo, bound north, and Webster and Co.'s steam tug Beaver. The…
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MELBOURNE, This Day. -- At 3 p.m. yesterday a rather severe smash occurred at Collingwood Station. A porter, new to the locality, in mistake shunted an engine…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A railway accident occurred at Collingwood station this afternoon. A passenger train arrived there about 8 o'clock. The engine was shunted off for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collision on Brisbane River. Intense Excitement
BRISBANE, Monday.—A collision occurred on Saturday afternoon, just above Lytton, between the steamer Barcoo, bound for the north, and the tugboat Beaver, on board of which were several…
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