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A profound sensation was created in the city early yesterday afternoon upon the raceipt of the sad intelligence that a disastrous explosion had occurred on board H.M.S. Wallaroo, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About midnight on Thursday, a six-roomed weather-board house at Warragul, occupied by a man named Hugh Carr, employed as a ganger on the railway, was totally destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →An American Presbyterian missionary steamer on the Upper Congo, while proceeding to Leopardville, capsized, with the result that a missionary and 23 natives were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A cart belonging to Messrs. H. H. Groth and Company, of George-street, came into collision with a tram car in that thoroughfare to-day. As a result, J. Little, 26, signwriter, 17…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The passengers by the 9.18 a.m. tram from Leichhardt to Circular Quay yesterday had a somewhat sensational experience. Just as the tram, which was a bogle combination car,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Albert Henderson, a coal trimmer, while returning to a ship, stooped to pick something up off the wharf, when he staggered, and fell into the river, and was drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The names of the killed are— GEORGE H. HALL, Chief Stoker, married. CHARLES E. ELLIS, Stoker, single. FRANK MOORE, Stoker, married…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The idea that a shocking disaster, ending in the loss of 43 lives and imperilling others, had occurred, was soon shattered by those on the Wallaroo. The news brought in by the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Arthur Durant, the second officer of the Coogee, continues to make satisfactory progress towards recovery. Dr. Stirling states that the patient will not be able to leave the hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A married man named Edward Martin, 40 years of age, was found drowned in a water tank at the All Nations Hotel, South Broken Hill, this morning. At 3 o'clock this…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A sensational accident occurred at the Gorden races (Victoria) on Wednesday. In the Welter Handicap, the field consisted of two horses. They had got about half-way round,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On inquiry at St. Vincent's Hospital yesterdya afternoon it was ascertained that Sandow, was the worst of the three. He was severely about the body, arms, legs, and face,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Quite a sensation was caused in Georg street, Haymarket, yesterday, through runaway horse attached to a van coming in violent collision with a tram Travelling…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →H.M.S. Tauranga arrived this morning. Captain H. R. Robinson, reporting to Vice-Admiral Fanshawe concerning the Wallaroo disaster, says:—"It happened at 2.30 p.m. on the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →During the morning a representative of the "Herald" had a conversation with Albert Dorren, one of the injured men. Dorren's injuries fortunately proved to be slight, he having…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The sympathy of the people was clearly shown by the numbers that gathered, even in the early morning, at the Man-o'-war Steps, Tarm Cove. It was at first thought that the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Four persons, who were sitting on the side of a tram bound from Leichhardt to Circular Quay, were injured by a collision with a runaway horse at The Haymarket, about 9.40 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →As early as 5 a.m. crowds of persons wonded their way to Fort Macquarie and Woolloomooloo Bay, in anticipation of the warship's arrival. It was at first understood that the wounded…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The news that was flashed throughout Australia on Thursday afternoon giving an account of the terrible accident that happened on board H.M.S. Wallaroo was happily…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The news from Montague Island on Thursday that 43 of the crew of H.M.S. Wallaroo had been killed in a boiler explosion happily proved to be an exaggeration…
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