Serious Tram Accident
Between 11 and 12 o'clock yesterday morning a lady, whose identity has not as yet been established, fell from the dummy of a cable oar near Glenmore-road. The lady…
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Accident to a Tug
When the tug Newburgh was launched from Mort's slip last evening it was found that one of the sea cocks had been left open, and, as a result, a quantity of water…
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One of the axles of the motor drawing the tram which leaves the railway station at 9.40 a.m. broke yesterday, Just as it rounded the curve leading from the…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.-- Yesterday morning a terrible accident occurred at Lillimur, and was followed by fatal results. Two ladles-- Mrs. F. Burgess and Mrs. C. A…
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A boy aged 14 named Ernest Crocket, employed at the Rock Lily Hotel, Narrabeen, as a waiter, was drowned in the lagoon there last night. Deceased in company with Richard Bellinger…
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The Rev. Henry E. Audrews, Wesleyan minister at Narrandera, whil[?] bathing in the Mnrrumbidgee River on Wednesday evening, in company with three companions, was rescued by…
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BATHURST, Friday.—A railway guard named Fred. Ainsworth, was admitted to the Bathurst Hospital this morning, suffering from a broken leg, and other injuries, received through falling off a…
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James Coady, 24, parter in the employ of P. McCarthy, earner. Rose-street, Darlington, was this morning crushed between the wheel of his vehicle and another. He sustained a fracture of…
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On Sunday afternoon a lad named Frank Ralph aged 7 years, a son of Mr. George Ralph of Parrumatta, had a very narrow escape from drowning in the Parramatta Park…
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Mr. Thomas Hamer, master butcher, was killed to-day. He was at the slaughter yards, and while on horseback yarding cattle a bullock rushed at his horse, which fell. Mr. Hamer was…
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On Wednesday last Mrs. Geo. Cooper and Mrs. Robert Foat were out driving in Mr. R. Charlesworth's sulky, with his well-known lively pony. They had been out…
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KEMPSEY, Monday.— A fatal boating accident happened on Friday afternoon at Trial Bay. Captain Grant, of the dredge Fitzroy, and two of the crew, Brown and Gunner, together with Adam…
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ALBURY, Friday. -- During the height of a terrific wind storm, which passed over the district last night, the gable end of a dancing-hall blew in carrying a…
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The condition of Mrs. Shearston, the lady who fell from a cable tram on Thursday, and has since been lying unconscious in St. Vincent's Hospital, shown no change this morning. Mrs. Shearston's…
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On arrival of the No. 65 down goods train today, at half-past 9 a.m., the guard, Frederick Ainsworth, was missed from the van. Inquiry led to the discovery that he had been accidentally…
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Mrs. Alpers of Smithfield, with her young child, on New Years' Day, was severely injured by the overturning of the buggy, owing to the horse taking fright at a dismantled gate…
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On Tuesday evening, Mr. A. P. Maher sustained a nasty fall from a cart as he was passing the public school. It seems that Mr. Maher was standing up in the cart which his…
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An alarming accident took place recently at the Mont Parnasse terminus of the Western Railway in Paris. A train from Brittany, which should have stopped at that station, failing to slack en speed by…
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The lady who was injured on the cable train yesterday was to-day identified as Mrs. Shearston, mother of the Rev. T. S. Shearston, of the Sailors Home. The lady…
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A man named Thomas Dickens, 42 years of ago, employed at the carriage works at Eveleigh, met with a most serious accident this morning. He was knocked down and…
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