Railway Collision at Eskbank
LITHGOW, Saturday.--An accident occurred yesterday morning near Eskbank coal stage through the engine of the shunter running into the end of a standing goods train. The…
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For the Injured
A new casualty room has been opened at Sydney Hospital. It is situated near the entrance by the Domain Gates, at the rear of the institution, though cases of accident may be taken in…
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The Randwick police were informed at about noon on Sunday of what was evidently a double drowning fatality near Little Coogee. A couple of men were observed by some other…
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A sensational yachting accident occurred at the opening the Victorian Yachting Association annual competitions at St.Kilda on Saturday afternoon the Rover, a square-stern half-deeked vessel about…
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About 11 o'clock yesterday morning Charles Frederick Burford, 27, lately living with his uncle at Purk-street, Little Coogee, and Thomas Bryee, 27, a married man, also residing in Park-street, were…
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A tragic incident occurred at Little Coogee yesterday morning, when two young men, named Charles Frederick Burford (27), single, of Park-street, Little Coogee, and Thomas Bryce (27),…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disastrous Hotel Fire. Twenty: Persons Killed. Forty Others Injured. London, Feb. 20
The Clifton Hotel, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S.A., has been destroyed by fire. Twenty persons were killed and 40 others were injured…
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Mrs. Hoare, of 49 Webb-street, Parramatta, met with a serious burning accident on Sunday afternoon. Earlier in the day she scalded her arm, and bandaged it with some linen saturated with…
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Yesterday afternoon a widow named Bridget Hoare who resides in Webb-street, was admitted into the Parramatta District Hospital suffering from burns on the body. It appears tha tduring the…
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A child named Hamilton Tirney, residing at 8 Hordern-street, Newtown, fell from a balcony on Saturday and sustained a fracture of the skull He was taken to Prince Alfred Hospital, and…
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About noon Yesterday a boy named Augustus Henderson, aged 12 years, residing at 2 Troutonstreet, Balmain, was fishing on the Yee[?]d-street wharf, when one of the local ferry steamers was…
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Michael Doberty. aged 63, residing in Miller-street, Balmain, was crossing a bridge over one of the sewers near Gordon-street in that suburb on Saturday, when a tram came along, and it is…
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The City Coroner (Mr. J. C. Woore) held an inquiry yesterday respecting the death of Mary Casey, 85, lately residing at 2 Cobar-street, Petersham, and whose body was found in Cook's River on Saturday…
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An open Verdict was returned at an inquest held yesterday on the body of Mary Casey, aged 85, who was found drowned in Cook's River about 10 o'clock on Saturday…
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The death or a widow named Mary Casey, aged 85 years, lately residing with her daughter at 2 Cobar-street, Petersham, and who was found drowned in Cook's River, about half a mile from…
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RIVERSTONE, Monday.-- A little boy, John Berry, aged six years, son of Mr. John Berry, agent of the Standard Life Assurance Company left home with a billycan about 5 o'clock…
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Two boys were drowned yesterday at an exclusion from Charters Towers to the Burdekin River. They went in to bathe at a spot where the current is very switt, and were carried out into deep water…
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A serious bicycle accident happened at Yambuk on Sunday afternoon. A six-mile road race, out and home, was in progress, when one of the competitors named Roberts, who had rounded the turning point,…
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John Kunz, a storeman employed at W. S. Friend and Co.'s York-street store, broke his left leg yesterday through a case of circular saws falling upon him…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Glenbrook Tunnel Accident
A few weeks ago the railway train, when endeavoring to pass through the Glenbrook tunnel, was stuck up, and had to return. The Railway Commissioners, believing that some of the…
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