Accidents
George Long, coal -lumper, 44, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital this afternoon suffering from the effects of a serious accident which he had sustained while…
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George Long, coal -lumper, 44, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital this afternoon suffering from the effects of a serious accident which he had sustained while…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WAGGA, Tuesday.— A case of drowning was reported to the police last evening. A boy named Walter M'Dermott, 7 years of age, returned home from school and went with three boys to a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WEST MAITLAND, Monday.--Yesterday afternoon Alfred Deakin, aged 13, who was swimming in the Hunter, dived and was held fast in the mud. When he was rescued…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BURRAGA, Monday.— A man whose name is supposed to be Andrew Meehan was found drowned this morning in the Abercrombie River at Burraga, Mount Costigan Crossing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Charles Edgar Wheeler, 28, manager of a furniture warehouse at Rutherglen, was drowned on Sunday in a creek while bathing. Wheeler and five others went to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Daniel Quail, who was knocked down and injured at Williamstown Railway Station on Saturday, died in the hospital today…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Monday.--Two men named Ross and Clarke were badly injured at the Nice explosive factory near Braybrook by an explosion of a small quantity of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The injured constables are all progressing most favorably, and are now almost out of danger. Constable Alford is very weak from the loss of blood, but is expected to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Constable Frank M'Cracken, of the water police, was the first officer to tackle Williams, and his introduction to the smaller burglar was heralded by a blow on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Particulars are to hand from Rio of the serious collision with an ice island of the ship Wellington, bound from New Zealand to London with a freight of frozen mutton,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, February 12.—Princess Victoria, Eugene Julia Ena, only daughter of Princess Henry of Battenberg (Princess Beatrice), met with an accident yesterday by being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Princess Ena, aged 7, daughter of Princess Henry of Battenberg (Princess Beatrice), has been thrown on her head while out riding at Osborne, in the Isle of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The report of the Parliamentary Board in the case of Genge, who was stationmaster at Prahran at the time of the Windsor railway accident, has been presented to the Premier…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An accident happened at the explosive factory at St. Albans to- day, when William Robs (23), John Clarke (24), brothers-in-law, had been scraping a box…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John Walker, 36, a laborer, residing at Banks- street, North Sydney, was brought to the Sydney Hospital this morning by Constable Cleagh, Water Police Station. He…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Richard Henry Bennett, 46, a wharf laborer, residing at 36 Forsyth- street, Glebe, was taken to the Sydney Hospital to- day by William Gowans, and admitted by Dr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Princess Ena, daughter of Prince Henry of Battenberg, has been seriously injured through being thrown from her pony. The Princess who is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday, 1 p.m.--Princess Victoria Eugenie, daughter of Prince Henry of Battenburg, has been injured by being thrown from a horse at Osborne,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Parramatta coroner, Mr. J. E. Bowdon, held an inquest at Gladesville yesterday into the drowning of a boy named Arthur Billington, who lost his life on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WAGGA, Tuesday.—A magisterial inquiry was held to-day by Mr. W. Rand into the death of Walter M'Dermott, 9 years of age, son of Thomas M'Dermott, a laborer. The evidence showed that…
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