Drowned in the Murrumbidgee
WAGGA, Sunday.--A case of drowning in the Murrumbidgee River happened about 5 o'clock this evening. A harvester named Davidson, recently employed by a farmer named Brimskill,…
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Drowned in the Murrumbidgee. a Farm Laborer's Fate. Wagga Wagga
A farm laborer named Davidson went to bathe last evening in the river behind tho church, and got beyond his depth, and was carried away in the current and drowned in…
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News from Corowa states that the body of a man was found on Saturday in the River Murray floating past Quat Quatta Station. It had evidently been in the water about a week, and will…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Accident at Picton. Some of the following items appeared in our later editions of Saturday. a Narrow Escape
A railway accident which might have been attended with serious, if not fatal results, took place in the vicinity of Picton on Friday. As a goods train was Hearing Picton from the Picton…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shocking Accident at Leeds. Five Children Burned to Death. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, Jan. 2
A dreadful occurrence is reported from Leeds, In that town a Church bazaar was being held, at which a number of children were acting. The dresses of fourteen of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shooting Accident at Broken Bill. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Broken Hill
Mr. Ausell, of Kapunda, now on a visit here, was accidentally shot through the thigh, and Miss Ausell, his daughter, through the leg. A friend was examining a loaded revolver in their presence, when the weapon…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Accident in a Mining Shaft. (By Telegraph.) (From Our Correspondent.) Newcastle
A fatal accident occurred at the Old Blaker shaft. New Lambton, causing the death of Herbert Thomas Brown. The deceased was in company with his mate, Richard Leatham, clearing out the old shaft with a view…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Killed in a Mine. Verdict of Accidental Death. NEWCASTLE
An inquest was hold at the, court-house, Lambton, on Saturday on the body of a man named Hubert Thos. Brown, who met his death at East Lambton Colliery on…
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ADELAIDE, Monday.--The body of Mr. James Murray, a draper of Port Adelaide, who carried on business there in connection with his son, was found in Torrens Lake, Adelaide, to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatality at the Collingwood Gasworks. a Workman, Suffocated. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne
A gas-purifier, named Dougal M'Dougall, was suffocated at the Collingwood gasworks at midnight on Friday. It is the duty of the gas-purifiers to pump out the pipe at the bottom of a well which…
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At Bowral, on Sunday night, a man named James B.Carrington cut his throat with a pocket knife. No cause is assigned for the act…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatal Accident Near Narrabri. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Narrabri
The wife of Mark Davis, a farmer at Eulah Creak, was thrown from a cart on Saturday. The cart collided with a waggon. Mrs. Davis was picked up terribly shattered, and died while being conveyed into town…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Accidents at Adelaide. an Epidemic of Deaths. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Adelaide
At the Victoria Square Railway Station, on the Glenelg line this morning, a tragic act of suicide occurred. Rowland Augustus Treadie, bairdressor, rushed out of his shop in King William-street…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Inquests. the Fatal Accident on the Waroonga
The inquest commenced on December 20,1890, on the body of Alfred Carew, a wharf labourer, who, on December 12, received, while working aboard the s.s. Waroonga, injuries which resulted in his death, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Slip of a Tow Hope. Accident to a Barque. NEWCASTLE
While the barque Verulam was being towed to sea yesterday the tow-rope slipped and caught the chief officer, Mr. A. Campbell, and a seaman named R. M'Donald and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Serious Accident. Two Quarrymen Crushed. PARRAMATTA
A serious accident occurred this morning at Messrs. Goodlet and Smith's brickyards, Merrylands. A man named Wm. Wicks was cutting under for a fall of clay, when…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accident While Timber-cutting. a Serious Wound Inflicted. PARRAMATTA
James Fear was admitted to the local hospital to-day. He was cutting timber when his axe struck a hanging bough, with the result that he inflicted a serious wound…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Another Drowning Fatality. a Child the Victim. GRAFTON
A lad named Gill, aged 6 years, while playing on a log in the river near Messrs. See and Co.'s wharf yesterday, full on, and was drowned. The body was recovered…
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Yesterday morning two men named Frederick Turner, of Parramatta, and William Wicks, of Guildford, were admitted into the Parramatta District Hospital Buffering from injuries…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sad Boating Calamity. Six Young People Drowned
THE police at Invercargill received particulars of a boating fatality at the head of Lake Wakatipu (N.Z.) on December 27, by which Joseph Oliver (28), Frederick…
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