Trains in Collision
Two trains collided at Jericho railway station on Wednesday night, at 1l o'clocK. It appears that the up train, consisting of an engine and half-a-dozen trucks, was…
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The Moreton Bay Boating Fatality
Further details or the Moreton Bay beat-ing accident state that Boucher helped Hinslewood into the boat after it capsized, lathing, him to the stern-sheets, having…
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While several men were engaged block-ing up one of the entrances to the Black Jack coal mine near Gunnedah on Thursday an explosion occurred, and blew them a…
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A member of the Third Contingent named Curran met with an accident by falling off one of the service waggons in the Liverpool-road yesterday. The wheel…
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Denis O'Loughlin, 26, a resident of Surry Hills, had the tops of his two fingers and a thumb amputated at Prince Alfred Hospital yesterday afternoon. O'Loughlin was…
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BURRAGA, Saturday. -- A sad drowning fatality occurred hero this afternoon. A child of Mr. Thos. Connolly's, about the ago of 4 years, was drowned in a waterhole close to his…
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The City Coroner (Mr. J. C. Woore) held an inquiry at the Balmain Cottage Hospital on Saturday concerning the death of a seaman named Francis Franzen (50), lately employed on the schooner Countess of Errol, whose…
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The body of Francis Franzen, 50, lately employed on the schooner Countess of Errol, was found floating near the Jubilee Dock, Balmain, on Saturday. The police recovered the corpse, and…
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LONDON, May 13.—A goods train came into collision with another in a railway tunnel at Philadelphia, with the result that four oil cars exploded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →General Cable News. Terrible Railway Collision. London, May 13, 3.30 p.m
A goods train collided with another train in a tunnel at Philadelphia, with the result that four oil cars exploded. The driver, stoker, and five tramps were…
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Denis O'Loughlin, 26, residing at Devonshire and Elizabeth streets, Surry Hills, was sawing woodblocks on the tramline, near the Railway Station, on Saturday, when the saw came in contact…
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TAMWORTH, Saturday Afternoon.—A nasty accident happened to Mr. E. C. Frankland, manager of Hunter's Boot Palace. Whilst returning from Moonbi on a bicycle, a chain of the machine broke,…
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A serious accident occurred at the Albion Park race meeting on Saturday afternoon, the victim being the well-known veteran trainer J. Stone. He had just fiuished attending to the horse…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Circular Saw Accident
Daniel Omosford, 26 years of age, living at the Southern Cross Hotel, and working on the tramway, near the railway station, cutting blocks, was using a circular saw when he…
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A fruit vendor named Charles English, aged about 55, living at Church-street, St. Peters, met with a nasty accident on Saturday. He was leaning against an electronic tram post near…
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Leslie Roberts, aged 9 years, living at the Technical College. Ultimo, was playing with a toy cannon, and using flash shot. The toy went off accidentally, and shot him in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatal Tram Accident. Death of an Albury Publican
A serious tram accident, terminating fatally, occurred in George-street on Saturday night, the victim being a man named James Irvine (34), who is said to have been the licensee of an Albury…
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A remarkable escape occurred in Parramatta Park on Saturday afternoon. A man named Turner was driving a buggy, in which, beside himself, were his wife and child, when a dog rushed at and bit the horse, which bolted…
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Leslie Drunmett (9), residing at the Technical College, Harris-street, Ultimo, was on Saturday playing with a toy cannon, in which he had rammed some plug shot, when it went off. The unfortunate lad received the shot…
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Daniel O'Loughlan (26), residing at the Southern Cross Hotel, Elizabeth-street, met with a painful accident whilst working opposite the railway station on Saturday. He was using a circular saw to cut wood-blocks…
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