Fatalities and Accidents. Fatal Fall Down a Lift
A fatal accident occurred on Saturday night to an engineer named Alexander Hampton, aged 27, employed at the Hotel Metropole. At about 9.30 p.m., one of the sliding…
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South Australia. Fatal Yachting Accident
ADELAIDE, Sunday. -- On Saturday a drowning accident took place at Glenelg, by which Mr. Jago, the nephew of the assistant health officer, lost his…
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MOLONG, Monday. -- Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Furlonge and her daughter had a narrow escape from drowning in the Molong Creek, which was running a banker. The…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A peculiar fatality is reported from Stawell. A little girl named Lily O'Dea, while leading a pet calf to water, fastened the rope round her own neck. It is supposed that…
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In the absence of the coroner and deputy-coroner from the town, Mr. J. H. Windsor, J.P., held a magisterial inquiry yesterday afternoon into the circumstances attending…
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MOLONG, Monday.—A sharp thunderstorm followed by a steady downfall of rain occurred here yesterday evening. The Molong Creek in less than an hour was a banker, and shortly after a…
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A most miraculous escape from drowning took place about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. It appears that several children were securing pieces of wood that were…
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A MAN (name unknown) was taken to the Sydney Hospital last night suffering from fractures of the skull, left leg and right foot. It is alleged that the victim jumped from a…
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The coroner's jury to-day found a verdict of death through drowning by his own act at the inquest on the body of Thos. M'Kay, second officer of the American barque…
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A girl named Constance Gertrude Darlow, 15 years of age, was on Sunday morning drowned in a small shallow lagoon, on Bull's run, which is about 28 miles distant from Wagga. The deceased was living…
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A miraculour escape from drowning took place at about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. It appears that several children were securing pieces of wood that were floating down Molong Creak, when one of them,…
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Another railway fatality occurred at Westmead, near Parramatta, this morning, the victim being an old man whoso name is at present unknown. As…
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Parramatta, Tuesday.—At 4 o'clock, this morning, when the Riverstone meat train was in the vicinity of Westmead, the driver saw what he thought was a dog crossing the line in front of…
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Two accideffts, the result of the careless use of firearms, happened on Monday evening. The first was that of a boy named Edwin Puckeridge, 14, who lives on Lord's-road, Botany. During the…
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CROOKWELL, Monday.—Mr. James Selmes, of Wheeo, met with a serious accident on Saturday while returning home with a load of wheat. He was riding on the top when by some means he…
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A sensational accident occurred at Ballarat to-night. On an alarm of fire Superintendent Crannago drove at full speed into Bridge-street, just as the brake of the Ballarat Fire Brigade came…
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On Friday last Bishop Goe was thrown from a buggy near the wreck of the Fiji at Moonlight Heads. He received injuries to his shoulder and neck. A doctor, who was telegraphed for from…
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William Sharpe, aged 13, employed at the works of the Wilkerton Brick and Tile Company, South Preston, this morning noticed that a piece of belting had become detached and was being…
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Upon inquiry at the Sydney Hospital this morning we learn that William Geary, the cabman who was admitted to that institution last evening, suffering from a…
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MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Bishop Goe, of Melbourne, who is on a visit to Prince town, met with a rather severe accident near that place on Friday last. The Bishop and his…
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