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LISMORE, Monday.-There is the highest and most disastrous flood here that has occurred for 20 years. The water entered the town at midnight on Saturday, and rose 15 feet between 2…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The works of the Australian Explosives and Chemical Company, Limited, at Deer Park, were to-day the scene of a disastrous explosion. Two men met with an instantaneons death and two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LISMORE, Monday.--4.15 p.m.: The biggest flood ever known occurred on the Richmond River on Sunday, the registered rise being 35ft. 6in. Every part of the town is now under…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A man named Charles Bourke was taken to the Sydney Hospital on Monday night. He was in an unconscious condition, and had been seen to fall from a dray on which he was driving in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BRISBANE, Tuesday.-While a lad named Her Lawton, aged 17, residing near Toowoomba, was out dock shooting on Sunday a loaded pea rifle which he was handling, from some unexplained…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Henry Lawton, aged 17, residing near Toowoomba, was out duck shooting yesterday. He was handling a loaded pea rifle, when from some cause unexplained the weapon went off. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →What might have been a fatal tram accident occurred late on Saturday night to a man named George Granger. It appears while walking down Hamilton-road he was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three boys who were rowing in a punt on the river yesterday were capsized, and Alexander Park was drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE City Coroner was this morning apprised of the death in Prince Alfred Hospital of a boy named Arthur Baker, who on Saturday last was badly injured through being kicked…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TAREE, Wednesday.--The body of Mr. Allison, second mate of the steamer Electra, was found this morning about two miles down the river from the place where the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN inquest was to-day held before the City Coroner at his court, Chancery-square, on the body of William Hillis, the cabman who was fatally injured through being thrown…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.-An accident of a shocking character occurred on the Sandringham railway line last night. Ignatius Moritz Feigle, formerly head machinist of the EVENING HERALD…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A RATHER peculiar tram accident occurred this morning in Belmore Park, where two trams came into collision. A little before 9 o'clock a tram, whilst…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The death of a carter named Charles Burke (37), recently residing at No. 45 Regentstreet, formed the subject of an inquest held before the City Coroner yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A collision between two trams happened this morning at the eastern entrance to Belmore Park, which fortunately was unattended with serious results. Although the particulars to hand as yet…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →HILLGROVE, Wednesday.--Owing to the heavy rain the gully near the Baker's Creek Consolidated mine new shaft overflowed, filling the shaft and drowning Thomas Coles…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WEST MAITLAND. Wednesday.-Very heavy rain again set in yesterday in Maitland, and continued all day. This, with heavy inland rains, has caused another rise in the Hunter River…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An inquest was held at the Prince Alfred Hospital on Wednesday afternoon relative to the death of a boy named Arthur Baker, who expired in the institution on Tuesday afternoon. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A shocking accident occurred on the Sandringham railway line this evening. Ignatius Morita Feigle, formerly head machinist of the Evening Herald office, attempted to cross the line…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fatal accident occurred last night at Baker's Creek Consolidated Mine. Thomas Coles, aged 24, together with his mate, drilled and charged a hole read to fire. The mate retired to the shaft, and…
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