Railway Fatality. Melbourne
Michael Coonan, engine-driver, aged 45. married, and the father of six children, jumped off the engine of a goods train coming into the Kensington station yesterday. He got…
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The Recent Harbor Collision
Salvage operations were commenced yesterday with a view of raising the steam launch Pacific, which sank at the entrance to Sydney Cove on Thursday last, as the result of a…
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In the last race the horse Gallina fell. The rider, James Hartigan, had his skull fractured, and there is little hope of his recovery…
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Charles Stanford, 52, a painter, who resides at the Soup Kitchen, Kent-street, was picked up in Kent-street yesterday in an unconscious condition. The No. 1 Police…
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A constable in Kent-street yesterday had his attention directed to an elderly man who was in an unconscious condition on the pavement, having apparently fallen and injured his head…
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The fine new steamer Corinthia (writes a Dunedin correspondent) may be classed as an unfortunate vessel, owing to the accidents which have occurred on board. At Hobert,…
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A painter named Charles Stanford, 52, residing at the Soup Kitchen, was found in Kent-street yesterday morning with his skull fractured. He was taken to Sydney Hospital and admitted by Dr. Tange for…
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A bicycle accident, which terminated fatally, occurred on the road to Penshurst on Friday afternoon. Michael Francis, aged 39, was riding from Hamilton to Penshurst on a bicycle when he was…
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A shocking accident happened at Kensington railway station this afternoon, involving the death of Michael Coonan, an engine-driver. Coonan was on the engine of a goods train going from North…
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A fall of earth occurred at the Victoria Mine, Charters Towers, this morning, a tributer named John Down being killed. A new brick structure in Townsville, occupied by…
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A man named Rollandi was drowned in the S[?] River near Guildford on Sunday. The body was recovered. The lad, Thomas Hudson, who received injuries…
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During the running of the last race of the Anniversary Meeting of the Newcastle Jockey Club to-day Mr. J. C. Smith's bay gelding Gallina fell near the turn. The jockey, James Hartigan, sustained a fracture of the skull,…
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A man named Henry Storey, aged [?] died in the Newcastle Hospital this morning through the effects of having drunk some spirits of salts by mistake. The deceased resided in Ingall-street, North Waratah. His son was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Island News. Fatal Accident to a Well-known Colonist
The Noumea mail, which arrived at Sydney on Thursday, brought news of a fatal accident, on December 20th, to M. Joseph Deville, Known in religion as Brother Antonino, director of the…
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DUBBO, Tuesday.--Last night the Infant daughter of Mr. E. R. Hawke, residing near town, was accidentally drowned through falling into a tub of water in the garden of her parents'…
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The steam launch Pacific, which was sunk in Sydney Cove last week by a collision with the Manly ferry steamer Fairlight, was raised yesterday by Messrs. D. Sheehy and Sons. The…
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The City Coroner (Mr. J. C. Woore) held an inquiry yesterday relative to the death of a boy named Ronald Bruce M'Lean, 11 years of ago, lately residing with his parents at Glen Duart,…
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A collision occurred at the Heads yesterday between the three-masted schooner Sliver Cloud and a mud punt in tow of the Government steamer Dayspring…
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A magisterial inquiry was held by the City Coroner yesterday into the circumstances conceived with the death of the lad Ronald Bruce M'Lean, whose body, as already reported, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Collision at the Heads. Mud Punt and Schooner
A collision between a mud punt and a wellknown 3-masted schooner occurred at Sydney Heads, yesterday. It is stated that the schooner Silver Cloud, a smart little craft of 292 tons,…
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