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An inquest touching the accident at the Baker's Creek Consolidated mine, resulting in the death of Thos. Cales, has just been conoluded The verdict agreed to was that of um accident death, caused by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. W. W. WARDELL, the well-known city architect, was the victim of a serious accident on Saturday. He was in the act of stepping out of a lift at the Bank of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Kidd, railway porter here, had a miraculous escape yesterday evening. Whilst engaged in shunting, a truck went over his foot, completely severing three of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A draper named Walter Rusk, aged 44, recently residing at 82 Botany-street, committed suicide in a most determined manner yesterday morning. At about…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A singular railway accident occurred on the north-eastern line yesterday morning. At 2 a.m. a special left Benalla for Wodonga. After leaving…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DUBBO, Saturday.--A young man named Edward Brandis, eldest son of Mr. Charles Brandis, one of the members of the Land Court, was thrown from his horse last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The body of Edward Young, the lad who was drowned whilst bathing off Stockton, has not been recovered…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the inquest held m connection with the sad drowning case at Howlong Station, of which a girl named Emily White, 16 years of age, was the victim, a mass of evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News is just to hand that the dead body of a man has been found a few miles up the Hunter in a decomposed state. Public opinion has it that it may be one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A shocking fatality occurred here on Saturday night. The steamer Elfie caught fire, and the deck cabins were destroyed. A young boat-hand named Alfred Salmon was burned to death. His body was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A telegram from America reports that disastrous floods have been experienced in the State of Alabama. Many persons were flooded out, and 20 cases of drowning have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The City Coroner has dispensed with an inquest into the death of the man Leslie Smith (43), recently residing at 55 Wells-street, Annandale, who died at the Prince…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday Night.--A telegram from New York reports that heavy floods have occurred in the State of Alabama. Twenty persons have been drowned and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The body found lying on the beach at Spit Island proved to be the remains of Waller Thomas, one of the victims of the sad boating fatality. The body…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A laboring man named Michael M'Lennan died in the Sydney Hospital on Tuesday night from the effects of an accident which happened on Monday morning. While at work on a building…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE City Coroner, at his court, Chancery-Square, this morning inquired into the facts connected with the death of Daniel M'Clelland, who succumbed in the Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Easter is at hand, and it brings with it the mournful memory of the disaster which occurred at Middle Head during the military manoeuvres of 1891. It also reminds one that the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shortly after midday on Wednesday a cattle train coming through from Bourke to Sydney met with an accident of a serious nature at the top of the Zig-Zag, on the Blue…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →TUMUT, Thursday.-Mr. Samuel Gordon, squatter, residing at Gocup, was riding home on Tuesday night, when his horse fell on Gilmore Bridge, which was slippery, owing to the recent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ADELAIDE, Wednesday.-Albert Coe, a jockey, engaged as stable lad by John Crozier, was killed this morning at Morphettville Racecourse. He was schooling Mirnee over hurdles in company…
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