Drowned While Bathing
LISMOBE, Monday.—Frederick Durrant, 24, a recent arrival from England, was drowned on Sunday, while bathing in the Richmond River, near the town…
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Manly Surf-bathing Fatality
A public subscription is being made in Balmain and district on behalf of the widow and family of the late Mr. W. t. Flowerdew, photographer, who was drowned on February 24, while surf bathing at Manly. There…
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On inquiry at the Parramatta Hospital this afternoon. It was learned that the condition of the jockey T. Clayton, who was injured at Rosehill on Saturday, was much the same as…
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A large number of small fires occurred during Saturday and Sunday in the city and suburbs. About 8 o'clock on Saturday night a shed at the rear of Mr. Alexander Kirkwood's grocer's shop in Forest-road,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Bridge Fatality. Hugh Fleming, Acquitted
In the Central Criminal Court on Friday, before Mr. Acting; Justice Rogers and jury, Mr. Hugh Pollock Crown Prosecutor, Hugh Fleming, an olderly man, pleaded not guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Injured by Explosion. Cessnock
A miner, named Laing, was injured in the Aberdare mine yesterday, the result of an explosion. Laing, it seems, had just lighted a fuse, and leaving a shot in the adjoining bord,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gollapse of a Gangway. Workmen Killed and Injured
LONDON, Sunday Evening.—While the workmen at Vickers, Sons, and Maxim's yard, Barrow-in-Fnrness, were passing from the Vanguard (the battleship under construction there)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Knocked Down by a Cab. Man Seriously Injured
A cabman called at No. 2 police station on Saturday night and reported that when driving a fare down pitt-street to the Central Railway Station he noticed a man…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Racecourse Smash. Disaster at Rosehill. Twelve Horses Fall. Several Jockeys Seriously Injured
An accident reminiscent of that in Grace Darling's Caulfield Cup, 1885, occurred at Rosehill on Saturday, when a dozen horses came down while taking part in the Trial Stakes…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gangway Collapses. Three Men Killed and Forty Injured. LONDON, Sunday, 2 p.m
The collapse of a gangway at Vickers, Son, and Maxim's shipbuilding yards, at Barrow-in-Furness, was responsible for three men being killed, and 40 others being…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Boy Accidentally Shot
Mr. Wormleaton, a resident of 12 Gerard-street, Alexandria, is in the habit of sleeping with a revolver under his pillow, which he, on waking, usually placed away safely. On…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accident in Cordial Factory. Moree
At Lillyman's cordial factory on Thursday a young man named Joseph Kane met with a severe accident through the explosion of a quantity of vitri[?]l. His face, neck, and arms…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Knocked Down by Vehicles. Two Serious Street Accidents
There has been a number of cases of pedestrians being knocked down and severely injured by vehicles in the city and suburbs of late, and the week-end has been marked by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Dream Unheeded. Miner's Accident. Broken Hill
Strange circumstances surround an accident which happened to a miner named J. Burns, working on Junction North mine early on Saturday morning. Burns went to work at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fatalities and Accidents. Knocked Down by a Cab
About 7 o'clock last night, Samuel O'Hara, while crossing Pitt-street, near Hay-street, was knocked down by a cab. He was taken by the Civil Ambulance to the Sydney Hospital, where…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sulky Accident
Edwin Burgess (13) was knocked down by a sulky in Regent-street, Redfern, on Saturday night, and received a scalp wound and concussion of the brain. The Civil Ambulance took…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →For Women. the Accident at Rosehill
Rosehill racecourse on Saturday was well patronised as to the stand by a numerous gathering of well-dressed women. But the accident in the Trial Stakes engrossed the attention of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Commercial Traveller Drowned
NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—The body of Patrick Fitzgerald was found floating in the harbor to-day. he was lately employed as a traveller for M'Crow and Sons, of Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Child Drowned
GRAFTON, Monday.--A drowning fatality occurred at Newbold this morning. An aboriginal named Clancy was crossing the river above the crossing, and was accompanied by a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Manly Surf Fatality
The residents of Manly, headed by the local surf club, on Sunday fell into line with the Balmain sympathisers of the widow of the late H. T. Flowerdew, recently drowned in the breakers at Manly. The Manly Band,…
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