Explosive Globes. a Shocking Accident. DENILIQUIN
An extraordinary accident has occurred here. The wife of a butcher named Mathewson was in the act of reaching to the shelf for a bar of soap. Right under…
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Burning of a Ship. in Woolloomooloo Day. The W. H. Lincoln Totally Destroyed. At Cowper Wharf-- Splendid. Work of the Firemen--The Fire Rages Through the Night--Still Burning to-day--Accident to a Fireman
THE first big fire of the year 1892 was discovered last night on board the American ship W. H. Lincoln, moored at Cowper Wharf, Woolloomooloo Bay, and it has…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Drowned in the Macleay a Boating Fatality. KEMPSEY
A man named W. M'Neil and a Chinese gardener were sailing up Nambucca River yesterday, from the heads to Macksville, and when off Bellwood sawmill the boat…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Death by Drowning. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Parkes
A magisterial inquiry was held at the Bogan Gate Hotel by Mr. G. W. Seaborn, J.P., in reference to the death of Charles M'Mahon, a tank-sinker, who was drowned in the Bogan Gate dam. It appears…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Childwall Collision. the Survivors Complain. London, January 5
It has transpired that the steamer which ran into and sunk the barque Child wall near Flushing, off the coast of Holland, was the Noordland. The steamer has returned to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Accident to the Oakland
Mr. J. E. Woodthorpe, secretary to the Sydney Underwriters' Association, has received a telegram from Captain John Hall relative to the steamer Oakland ashore there. Captain Hall says (dated Monday):—"The Oakland has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Playing with Firearms. Accident to a Boy. GUNDAGAI
What might have been a serious accident occurred yesterday afternoon to a son of Mr. Radcliffe, aged 12 years. Tho boy was carelessly playing in the house with a…
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ALBURY, Thursday.—A drowning case is reported from Illillawa Station, on the Murrum-bidgee. Charles Porter, a young Englishman sent out to gain colonial experience for a term on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drowned in the Murrumbidgee. Albury
Particulars of a sad end are to baud from Murrumbidgee, where a magisterial inquiry was held at Illillawa yesterday on the body of a young man named Charles Porter, who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sad Fate of a Little Boy. Drowned in Front of His Mother. LISMORE
A sad case of drowning occurred yesterday afternoon, the son of Mr. Dargie, 9 years of age, being the victim. The boy was in the river swimming with others at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Prospect Dam. Serious Accident. Sydney Water Supply
This morning early a rumor reached town to the effect that a very serious mishap had occurred in connection with the Prospect Dam where the water for the supply of Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Accident to the Oakland
Concerning the accident to the steamer Oakland, a Richmond River report says:—"The steamer Oakland, when crossing out last Thursday with a full load mainly of timber, got ashore on the inner part of the southern channel on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney Water Supply Accident to an Aqueduct. Collapse of Five Arches
NEWS was received in the city this morning of a serious accident to the Sydney water supply main, which occurred at a point somewhere near Potts' Hill this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Special Edition Potts' Hill Accident. Granville Without Water. Repairs Promptly Undertaken. No Danger to Sydney--Precautions By the Authorities--Gangs of Workmen Sent Up
THE break in the aqueduct connecting Prospect and Potts' Hill caused a good deal of consternation at first, but on the momentary excitement passing over the actual…
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MORUYA, Wednesday.--The mail coach from Broadwood to Moruya, met with an accident yesterday evening. When a few miles on the Moruya side of Araluen, coming…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Tram Fatality
A boy named Walter Henry Roche, aged 11, lately residing at James-street, Enmore, was run over and killed by a tram yesterday. At 5.30 p.m. the deceased, who was a…
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A boy named Webb, who resided with his parents at Canonbury Grove, Dulwichhill, was drowned in a large waterhole at Woolli Creek, Arncliffe, yesterday afternoon…
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A youth named Webb, who resided with his parents at Cannonbury Grove, Dulwich Hill, on Thursday afternoon went fishing in a large water-hole in the Vicinity of Woolli Creek, and by some…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Oruba Fatality. To the Editor
Sir,—The account of the accident in Neutral Bay on Saturday last, through which one of the stewards on the R.S.S. Oruba lost his life, is no doubt still fresh in the minds of your readers, but…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Distressing Tram Fatality. a Boy's Head Split in Two
AN accident resulting in the shocking death of a boy named Walter Roche occurred yesterday evening at the Enmore tram terminus. The lad had been given some…
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