General Cable News. Torpedo Boat Disaster. Thirty Men Drowned. LONDON, April 24, 8.45 p.m
The Australian Star · Wednesday 25 April 1900 · page 4
'An explosion occurred on board the Turkish torpedo boat Scham at Beyrout, in the Levant, while the crew were testing a searchlight. The vessel sank almost immediately, and 30…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accidents on Trams
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 April 1900 · page 6
The Railway Commissioners are in receipt almost daily of reports from the Tramway Superintendent of minor accidents on the tramways, due principally to people attempting to enter or leave…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accident in George-street West. Tram and Lorry Collide
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 April 1900 · page 11
A somewhat serious collision occurred in George-street West, near the Newtown-road, last evening, between an electric tram and a lorry. The lorry was in charge of a man named Peter…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Cycling Chronicle. the League. Holiday Programmes in Victoria. Jackson Gets the Druids' Wheel Race. Bob Lewis the Eight Hours Handicap. 'Newhaven" Injured—Gordon Going to the United States—Hunt and Forbes Win in the Country—Beauchamp Secures a Championship—And General News
Referee · Wednesday 25 April 1900 · page 6
The recent carnival at Adelaide returned the League, according to the official report, £220. G. W. Burtson, who occupied the position…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Drowning Fatality
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 April 1900 · page 7
The body of William Cipher (17), who was drowned at Farmer's Baths, Woolloomooloo Bay, on Sunday morning, floated at 0 o'clock yesterday morning, and was recovered. it was taken to the South Morgue, and an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Railway Fatality
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 April 1900 · page 8
A young man named Ethelbert Stawart, 19 years of age, employed by the Railway Department as a gatekeeper at Broadmeadow, and intely residing at Merewether, was killed on the railway line at about…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Inquests. the Tram Fatality
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 April 1900 · page 8
The City Coroner (Mr. J. C. Woore) concluded an inquiry at the Coroner's Court, Chancery-square, yesterday regarding the death of a lad named Leslie Watts, (10), a news vendor, who died at the Sydney Hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Harbor Mystery. an Old Woman Found Drowned
Evening News · Thursday 26 April 1900 · page 8
At about 7 o'clock this morning the body of an elderly woman, whose identity has not yet been established, was found floating in the waters of Darling Harbor, near the foot of Bathuret-street…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Accident at Pyrmont
Evening News · Thursday 26 April 1900 · page 3
A laborer named John M'Gowen, 28 years of age, residing at 52 Princes-street, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital yesterday suffering from concussion and a severe shaking, the result of a fall…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shocking Accident. Killed on the Railway Line. NEWCASTLE
The Australian Star · Thursday 26 April 1900 · page 4
A young man named Ethelbert Henry Stewart, 17 years of age, was run over and killed by a train on the Sydney-Newcastle line last night. He had charge of the gates…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Crane Accident
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 April 1900 · page 8
John M'Gowan (28), laborer, residing at 52 Princes street, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital by Dr. West yesterday, suffering from concussion of the brain. M'Gowan was working on the crane at Pyrmont Bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Accidentally Drowned
The Australian Star · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 6
Yesterday, the City Coroner held an inquiry into the death of the lad William Creber, 16, whose body was found floating on Wednesday at Farmer's Baths,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Strange Drowning Case at Farmer's Baths
Evening News · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 6
The city coroner yesterday instituted an inquiry, into the circumstances surrounding the death of William Chas. Joseph Creber, a youth employed as a messenger in the G.P.O., who was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatality at Mount Kembla Colliery
Evening News · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 6
WOLLONGONG, Thursday Afternoon. — An accident occurred at Mount Kembia Colliery at noon to-day, when a youth named James Benjamin, a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle. the Broadmeadow Railway Fatality
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 6
Mr. G. C. Martin, District Coroner, conducted an inquest at the Clarendon Hotel, Newcastle, yesterday afternoon, on the body of Ethelbert Henry Stewart, the gatekeeper at Broadmeadow, who was run over by an engine…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Railway Fatality. Newcastle
The Australian Star · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 2
Yesterday afternoon Mr. G. C. Murtin, District Coroner, held an inquest on the body of Ethelbert Henry Stewart, aged 17. a gatekeeper at the Broadmeadow[?]road crossing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle. the Railway Fatality. Newcastle
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 6
The city coroner, Mr. G. C. Martin, J.P., conducted an inquest at Clarendon Hotel this afternoon on the body of the youth named Ethelbert Henry Stewart, 17 years of age, lately residing at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatal Shooting Accident
Evening News · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 4
BEGA. Friday.—A young man named Amos Brown, whose parents reside at Kanoona, was accidentally shot dead on Thursday near Kanoona Creamery, a few miles from here. It appears Brown, who was in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Accident at Mount Kebla Colliery. Wollongong
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 3
An accident occurred at the Mount Kembla Colliery this afternoon, by which a surface hand named James Benjamin, aged 20, was killed, owing to being crushed between the revolving tippler of the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Accident. Mount Kembla Colliery. WOLLONGONG
The Australian Star · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 6
A sad accident occurred this morning at the Mount Kembla Colliery. A young man named James Benjamin, who was engaged with the appliances which are used at this colliery for…
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