Singular Accident
"An extraordinary accident happened during the height of the thunderstorm in Sydney on Thursday night. Following a vivid flash of lightning and a violent clap of thunder at about…
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Casualties. Fatal Vehicle Accident. Gunning
While Mr. Thomas Apps, a resident of Burrowa was, in company with another man, driving a waggonette last night he was killed owing to the vehicle overturning while…
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A shocking accident occurred, tote yesterday afternoon. A man named Robert Garabel, 39 years of age, was Working at Binney and Co.'s leather factory, when his right arm…
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PERTH, Friday.--When a train was returning to Collie from what is known as the timber-hewers' concession, the driver lost control of the engine, as the regulator would…
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An Adelaide wire reports that Win. Strapps, clerk, went out in a canvas canoe about 14ft. long. taking with him his sons, Claude and Frank, aped 16 and 10 years respectively. Gordon MIller, aged…
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The rain which fell early yesterday evening was particularly heavy in the vicinity of Ashfield, and it is thought to have been responsible for a case of…
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Senior-Inspector M. Willis, who had the misfortune to fracture his left thigh while descending the stairs at the Public Instruction Department last Tuesday,…
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Two men named John Abrahams and H. S. Thompson were drowned in the Swan River, at Crawley this afternoon. With three others they were crab fishing on a sand spit…
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Ethel Whelan, a married woman, was burned to death at Leederville yesterday. While cooking at a fire in the open her clothes became ignited…
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Captain M'Donald of the barque Zinita which arrived at Wallaroo on Saturday from Captetown, reports that at 2 o'clock on Christmas' morning, when he was 207 miles…
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PERTH, Sunday.--A sad double drowning case occurred on the Swan River to-night. Three men were fishing off the rocks, when the bat of one, Casey, blew off, and drifted out into the…
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WALGETT, Saturday.--Yesterday a man named David Walsh met with a serious accident. Willie riding in the bush at a hand gallop, the bit broke, and the horse bolted…
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ALBURY, Monday.—Lynwood Washington, better Down as "Black Sam," and one of the best known [?] in the district, has met his death by drowning in the Murray River…
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The Inquest into the death of the boy Henry William Chick was concluded at the Coroner's. Court, Chancery Square, this afternoon. When our first edition went to press the witness,…
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The death of the boy Henry William Chick which occurred in the Marrickville Cottage Hospital on Thursday last, as the result of injuries sustained at Belmore railway station on the…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.--The police yesterday received from Rollington Creek, about 40 miles from Townsville, information to the effect that Margaret Lambert, aged 31 years, wife of a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Collision in Mid-ocean Great Disaster Feared. Barques Zanita and Coimbatore. Supposed Loss of the Latter. Wallaroo (S.a.)
The captain of the barque Zanita, which arrived yesterday, reports that at 2 o'clock on Christmas morning, when he was 207 miles west-south-west of Cape Leeuwin, he came…
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LONDON, Sunday. 3 p.m.—The Marquis of Linlithgow, formerly Governor-General of Australia, while hunting at Tarporley, Cheshire, yesterday, was thrown from his…
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The Marquis of Lin[?]thgow (ex-Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia) met with an accident yesterday, whilst hunting at Tarporley…
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The dead body of a man, who had evidently fallen over the cliff, was found yesterday afternoon on the rocks near the Quarantine Station. From papers found in the pockets…
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