Fatality at Enfield
On Wednesday afternoon a man named William Walker, aged 67, a native of England, while walking along the trolly-line in the Eufleid Brickworks, having just come up from the pit, came into contact…
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Shooting Fatality at Gympie. Brisbane
A fatal accident occurred at Gympie to-day. Hubert Thomas, 15 years of ago, only son of Mr. W. E. Thomas, sharebroker and raining secretary, in company with other youths, went shooting in the…
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A third railway collision occurred yesterday, the scene of the disaster being Lafox, in Illinois. Three people were killed and 12 Others were injured…
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BROKEN HILL, Thursday Afternoon.âEdward Hill a miner, employed at the Proprietary Mine, has had one of his legs broken in two places, and was also badly crushed, through two tons of…
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William Griffiths, 26, living at Horbert-sbreet, Paddington, fell from a tram near the fire station, in Oxford-street last night, sustaining severe injuries to thehead. He was picked up in a…
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Another railway collision in the United States occurred at Tueson in Arizona yesterday. Eight people were killed and 17 others were injured…
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[?] English Letter mentions that the Norwegian barque Western Monarch, from Gothenburg to South Africa, took fire in her cabin while lying at…
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The circumstances connected with the death of William Walker (56), who died from injures received at Enfield on Wednesday, formed the subject of an inquest at the Western Suburbs Cottage Hospital yesterday…
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John Elden, 16 years of age, died in Williamstown Hospital this morning from injuries received at a picnic at Mornington on the 24th inst. He was riding a bicycle on the track at the local…
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Messrs. J. A. Beales and E. H. Heppell, well-known bookmakers, collected over £25 for the widow and orphans of the unfortunate man Kemp who was struck dead by lightning near Sans…
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On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. T. E. MacNevin, S.M, as Parramatta District Coroner, held an inquest on the body of a man named Henry Sharman, who had been found lying…
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James Johnson, 30, a wharf-labourer, living at Lower George-street, was working on a vessel at Parbary's wharf yesterday afternoon when he was struck on the head by a beam of timber. The…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Law Report. Friday, January 30. Court of Marine Inquiry. (Before Judge Backhouse and Captains Joshua Lewis Fawkes and John James Simpson.) an Unavoidable Accident
Re the steamer Fortunatus. Mr. Cargill, from the Crown Solicitor's Office, appeared on behalf of Captain Edie, the Superintendent of Navigation; Mr. Schrader appeared for Captain Frederick Smith,…
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While Mr. Alexander Ogilvie, of Manly, and a party of ladles, were driving along the Rocky Point-road, Kogarah, yesterday afternoon, the horse became restive with the result that the…
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On the Military-road, North Sydney, there has existed for many years—18, to be precise—an extensive and dangerous waterhole some acres in extent. It is the remains of an old…
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Passengers leaving the R.M.S. Omrah, which dropped anchor in Neutral Bay on Saturday, had a few minutes excitement before reaching shore. The steam yacht Northumbria, which…
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William Jennings, a railway porter, was drowned at Toonambble while bathing in a dam…
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KEMPSEY, Monday.—A drowning accident occurred in the Macleay River, at Kempsey, yesterday. A young man, about 20, named Reginald Coleman, who was travelling, searching for work…
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A telegram from London, Ontario, Canada, on December 27, published in the San Francisco "Call," says:—A frightful collision occurred a short distance from the little station of Wanstead, on the…
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Among the cablegrams published in the "Herald" on "Friday last were three relating to serious collisions in America, involving the death of or suffering to no fewer than 209 persons. The mail brought…
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