Botany Drowning Case
The city coroner held an inquiry at the Waterworks Hotel, Botany, yesterday-regarding the death of a youth named Walter William Henry Puckeridge, drowned in Botany Bay on Saturday, as…
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Fatalities and Accidents. the Botany Drowning Case
The City coroner yesterday held a magisterial inquiry with reference to the death of Walter Puckeridge, the youth who was drowned at Botany on Saturday. The circumstances attendant…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Clyde Fatality
An inquest was held yesterday at the Royal Hotel, Granville, into the cause of death of Charles Palmer, engineer-in-charge at the railway electrical shed at Clyde. Deceased…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Railway Collision
The Chief Traffic Manager(Mr. Kirkcaldie) and the Chief Mechanical Engineer(Mr. Thow) are engaged in an inquiry into the acicdent. They will…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Collision Averted. Stockton Steam Ferry. NEWCASTLE
The Stockton steam ferry boat Adeline had a narrow escape of being run down in the harbour on Saturday night. At about 8 o'clock the Newcastle and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Collision at Redfern. Two Suburban Trains Meet. a Carriage Wrecked. Miraculous Escape of Passengers. How the Accident Occurred
Shortly after half-past 8 o'clock yesterday morning an incoming and an outgoing suburban train attempted to cross one set of points opposite the Redfern station signal box at the same time…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Accident at Redfern. Trains Collide Near the Station. a Carriage Wrecked and Its Occupants Injured. No Lives Lost
It was on the 31st October, 1894, that the dreadfu[?] collision occurred at Redfern, involving the loss o[?] eight lives. The occurrence of a similar acciden[?] within two brief yearsâfortunately with no loss o[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Burned to Death. The Brickworks Fatality A Mammoth Excavation, A Great Rubbish Dopot-Filling Up the Chasin-Great Danger from Fire
The terrible fatality which occurred at Erskineville late yesterday afternoon, a boy named Claud Blyton, nine years of age, being smothered in a mass…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Peculiar Accident
GLEN INNES, Monday.—A young man named Wheeler, who has only been lately appointed to the position of lamplighter, was yesterday making his preliminary rounds with a man named Cox, and when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gales on New Zealand Coast. Shipping Accidents
AUCKLAND, (N.Z.). Tuesday.—Very rough weather has prevailed along the coast during the past few days. At Napier on Saturday a violent gale raged all day. Tropical rain fell, and an enormous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Accidents
THE serious railway collision at Redfern Station yesterday furnishes one more illustration of the danger that exists in that busy centre through the congestion, of traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Burning Accident. Firing a Rubbish Heap. a Boy Burned to Death. Another Badly Hurt
A boy named William Blyton, aged 11 years, residing with his parents at Amy-street, Erskineville, was taken to Prince Alfred Hospital on Monday afternoon, suffering from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Granville Fatal Accident
An inquest was held at the Royal Hotel, Granville yesterday, by Mr. T. E. Macnevin, P.M., into the circumstances of the death of Charles Palmer, 38, who was accidentally killed at the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Fatal Accident
About 3 p.m. yesterday an accident took place in Regent-street, near the Mortuary, by which a carter named John Webb lost his life. The unfortunate man, it appears, was driving…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fearful Accident. To Two Young Boys. Fall Into a Burning Pit
Mr. James Cook, who is employed at Bakewell Brothers' Brick and Pottery Works, Erskineville, was informed of a shocking event which occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident at Glen Innes. Glen Innes
A very nasty accident occurred to a young man named Wheeler here yesterday. Wheeler is in the employ of the council as lamplighter, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Bicycle Accident
Cornelius Stewart Pigott, who was admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital on Saturday suffering from internal injuries received through falling off a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Driving Accident at Penrith. Penrith
A young lady named Miss Ashbury, daughter of a Penrith resident, was in company with a child returning from the station to-day in a buggy, when…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stockton Colliery Accident
With reference to the Court of Investigation appointed to inquire into the causes and circumstances attending the recent disaster at the Stockton colliery, we are informed that owing to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Collision
When seen yesterday afternoon Mr. Eddy stated that the Railway Commissioners had appointed a board, consistmg of the chief traffic manager and the chief mechanical engineer, to investigate the…
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