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One of the most frightful accidents that has happened in the harbour for some time occurred on Tuesday morning, when two men composing the crew of the schooner Catherine Agues, were blown to…
Continued on Trove, page 250 →A hospital at Indianapolis, Indiana (U.S.A.), has been destroyed by fire. The bodies of 19 of the inmates were practically calcined. Thirty other persons also…
Continued on Trove, page 240 →The inquest on the body of John Northcote, the victim of the recent fatal explosion on board the punt Catherine Agnes, was resumed before the City Coroner at…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, January 20— A train collided with a sleigh while crossing the line at St. Louis, Missouri (U.S.A.) Eight persons were killed and 14 injured…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →On the voyage of the schooner Welcome from Kaipara to Sydney some very heavy weather was encountered. During a hard southerly gale tie mate, Charles Helander, who was standing aft,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the voyage hence from Kaipara (N.Z.) of the schooner Welcome, which arrived in port on Saturday night, the first mate, Mr. Charles Helander, was washed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →OXLEY, Monday.—A man named Edward Lloyd, 24 years of age, was drowned in the Lachlan, near Oxley, on Saturday afternoon. Deceased was attempting to swim the river on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TOWNSVILLE, Sunday. -- A young man whoso name has not transpired was accompanying Mr. Andrew Clarke from the Lower Burdekin to Townsville with some bullocks,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The schooner Welcome, from Kaipara, arrived yesterday with a cargo of kauri pine. Captain D. R. Cooper reports a sad fatality having accurred at sea. The vessel crossed out the Kaipara bur on the 20th January and met with fine…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Hurdle Race at Warwick Farm this afternoon resulted in a couple of the horses engaged coming to grief, and in one ease of injury to the rider. Mr. J. Kerr's b g The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An accident happened at the Warwick Farm race meeting on Saturday, during the first hurdle race, which resulted in a jockey named William English, 23, who lives in Coogee-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A schoolboy named Charles Cheeseman, 14, who lived with his parents at 25 Gibbons-street, Redfern, died suddenly in the Sydney Hospital on Sunday night. He was admitted to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two accidents occurred in the Hetton Colliery. A man named Dodds, fell over a skip and sustained dangerous injuries to his ribs. Another…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PENRITH, Monday.--On Saturday morning a party of miners were working in a tunnel at Glenbrook, and one of their number was pressing a charge of powder in the face of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A sad case of drowning, which occurred at Rookwood last night, has been reported to the Parramatta district coroner. It appears that Harry Greienyer, aged 10 years…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fatality, which is alleged to have been caused by three roughs, or by one of their number, occurred in George-street North, opposite No. 4 police station, at about midnight on Saturday. A seaman named…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The barque Ferndale, bound from Newcastle, New South Wales, to Portland, Oregon, U.S.A., has been wrecked at Gray's Harbour, Washington Territory, U.S.A.,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A lad named Sydenham Fraser Williams, 8 ½ years of age, went to bathe with a younger brother in the river, about 200 yards to the northern side of the railway bridge, Wagga, on Saturday morning. He got…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Penrith, Monday.âWhile some men were employed putting in charges of rackarock in a tunnel at Glenbrook on Saturday an explosion took place. One man was seriously injured…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An inquest was held to-day on the body of Thos. Lawless, who met with an accident on Saturday at the Glenbrook tunnel. It appears that deceased, with some other men, were employed in blasting in…
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