A Fearful Accident. Unexpected Explosion of Gunpowder. MELBOURNE
A man named Woodcock sustained dreadful injuries at Morehead yesterday. He was engaged in pipe-laying, and while tamping a charge of gunpowder it exploded…
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Fatal Accident at Charlotte-place
A sad accident occurred last night shortly after midnight at a building in course of erection in Charlotte-place which resulted in tho death of a young man named Edwin Owen who…
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ON Thursday, last week, tram motor No. 37 suddenly left the line near Bay-street, Botany, drawing two cars with it. The couplings broke; and the cars were left behind. But the motor ran across the street…
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BATHURST, Monday.—A serious buggy accident happened on Saturday on the road between O'Connell and Oberon. The Rev. Father Walsh, Mr. Jeffries and Mr. Luxton were driving in…
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NEWCASTLE, February 6.—On Wednesday a youth named William Sanson, aged 15 years, son of Mr. George Sanson, of Cabbage Tree, was admitted to the local hospital suffering from…
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COWRA, Saturday.--Mrs. M'Dowell, late matron of the local hospital, and her infant son were found drowned this morning in a well at the rear of the Railway Hotel, of which Mr…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--Thomas Brandon, an hospital patient at Dunolly, has been discovered drowned in a storm channel in connection with the town's water supply…
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BALRANALD, Saturday.—A very sad case of drowning took place here on Friday afternoon. It appears that two boys named Willie Camin and Willie Lynch, aged 12 and 10 years respectively,…
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BALRANALD, Saturday.--Two lads, Frederick Davenport, aged 11 years and 8 months, and William Lynch, aged 10 years and 4 months, were drowned in a waterhole near the…
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The City Coroner, Mr. J. C. Woore, held an inquest at the Croydon Hotel on Saturday on the body of a man named Neil M'Cauley, who was found fleating in the water near the Clarence and Richmond River…
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An inquest was held on Saturday at the North Sydney Morgue on the body of the man Neil M'Cauley, whose body was found in Darling Harbor on Friday evening. Deceased was about…
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NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--A sad case of drowning occurred here yesterday. A man named Walter Hendy went out to have a bathe in the sea near Bogey Hole early in the…
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NEWCASTLE, Monday.—On Saturday a pile of clothes were found on the Rocks near the Bogey Hole by some young men who went bathing. They reported the natter to the police. The…
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MOREE, Saturday.--Miss Amy Boland, of Kunopia, was drowned in the Barwon yesterday whilst bathing…
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During the first race at Canterbury Race Meeting, on Saturday afternoon, a jockey, named Henry Morn, was seriously injured. Morn was riding Pugilist in the Plying…
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The dead body of a man since identified as a wharf laborer named Robert M'Cauley was discovered last Friday night by Robert Haynes floating in the waters of Darling Harbor. No…
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Regarding the case of drowning reported on Saturday, the inquest was held in the evening before the City Coroner, J. T. West, J.P., and a jury of 12…
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THE inquest on the body of Mabel Lloyd, the little girl who was killed on, Saturday morning through being run over by a tram in Oxford-street, was held to-day before Mr…
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Another fatal tram accident occurred in Oxford-street on Saturday morning. The victim was a little girl named Mabel Lloyd, who resides with her stepfather at 17…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sad Drowning Fatalities at Balranald. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Balranald
Two [?]s, named Frederick Davenport, aged 11 years and 3 months, and William Lynch, aged 10 years and 4 months, were drowned in a waterhole near the Chinese gardens yesterday afternoon. About…
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