Railway Accident. Lawson
A Chinese hawker who was travelling along the mountains had a miraculous escape from death yesterday evening. While he was crossing the railway line at Faulconbridge a luggage train running…
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Accident to Madame Melba
Madame Melba, who is now on a tour of the United States, met with a painful accident in a San Francisco drawing-room. A bronze statue fell from its pedestal, and struck her…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Accident. Death of a Police Magistrate. YOUNG
Mr. Foley, P.M., who sustained a fracture of the leg through being thrown from the Grenfell coach this morning, was attended by three medical men. It was found necessary…
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The City Coroner will this afternoon conduct an inquest, at the South Sydney Morgue, concerning the death of a lad named Edward Henry Browne, who was last night killed on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident to Madame Melba. Struck by a Falling Statue. Unconscious for Some Time
LONDON, Wednesday.--Mme. Melba, who is now on a tour of the United States, was the victim of a painful accident in a San Francisco drawingroom…
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The coroner held an inquest yesterday respecting the death if an elderly man named Jno. O'Brien, who was fatally injured on the Belmore railway line on Tuesday evening. According to the…
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At the South Sydney Morgue yesterday, the City Coroner conducted an inquest concerning the death of a boy named Edward Henry Browne, who was run over and killed at 6.30 p.m. on the previous evening by a train…
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A young man named Edward Hughes met his death at Wallsend yesterday through receiving a gunshot wound in the stomach, in what appears to have been an accidental manner. The…
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A serious accident occurred this morning on the schooner Mary Born, lying at Pyrmont, when a seaman named Joseph Scena, a native of Portugal, received injuries which necessitated his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The St. Peters Railway Fatality
The death of the lad Edward Henry Brown, whose violent end was recorded in the first edition of the "Star" to-day, formed the subject of an inquest conducted at the South…
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A wharf laborer named Charles Olsen, 64, residing at 62 Harrington-street, met with a serious accident yesterday afternoon while following his occupation on the B.M.S. Omrah, at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Accident at Fitzroy Falls. the Rev. G. A. Gordon Still Unconscious. Bowral
The Rev. G. A. Gordon, B.A., Presbyterian minister here, who sustained a serious injury by falling over a cliff at the Fitzroy Falls on Monday, remains in a precarious condition. There was a slight…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatal Gun Accident. Newcastle
A sad fatality occurred at Wallsend shortly after 1 o'clock to-day, whereby a young man, 19 years of age, named Edward Hughes, was killed by the sudden explosion of a rifle. It appears decented was…
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Joseph Sena, a Portuguese seaman, employed on the schooner Maryburn. lying at Pyrmont Bridge, met with an accident this morning through being struck by a hawser across…
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A couple of accidents occurred on the Orient steamer Omrah, lying at Circular Quay, within half-an-hour of each other yesterday afternoon, two men falling down the hold, a distance of about 10ft. Their names were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Explosions in France. War Office Experiments. Another Mishap Caused. Toulon Explosion Accidental
LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--In view of the Toulon disaster, experiments have been conducted by the War Office authorities in Paris to determine the result of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Hindoo Sportsman Drowned
COROWA, Friday. -- A Hindoo named Abraham met his death by drowning in a lake about four miles from here. Deceased bad shot a diver, and without removing any of his clothes entered the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Fatality at Auburn. The Inquest and Verdict
The inquest touching the death of the young man Edward M'Mahon, who was scalded to death on Tuesday through an explosion, by which one of the check-valves of a digester…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Scalding Fatality at the Meat Works. Explosion off a Check Valve. Deceased Caught Like a Rat in a Cage
Further particulars respecting the sad fatality at the Sydney Meat Preserving Company's Works on Tuesday are now to hand, and they tend to show that the position in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →British Tars. a Fight With French Sailors Twelve Combatants Injured. LONDON, March 24, 2.1 p.m
A conflict between British and French sailors has occurred at Ville-Franche, in the department of Alpes-Maritimes. A party of bluejackets from the British…
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