Serious Blasting Accident. Gloucester
An accident occured at the 32-mile camp (Crisp's gang), on the North Coast railway construction works, Gloucester to Taree. Blasting powder had been placed in a 14ft…
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A Coaching Accident
While George Bowden was driving four horses attached to a coach, at Walcha, yesterday. the animals took fright at a motorcar. The coach capsized, and several…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Fall in Grain. Accident at Darling Island
While base of Grain were being shipped aboard the steamer Runie by the elevator at one of the grain sheds at Darling Island this morning a bag fell and knocked down…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Explosion of Gelignite. Accident at Fern Hill. Miner Horribly Mutilated and Killed
The premature explosion of a charge of gelignite in a sewer shaft at Fern Hill yesterday afternoon was responsible for the death of a sewer miner, Alfred Warner, lately…
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The death of Lewis John Allan (15), which occurred at his home, Ormond-street, Paddington, on Sunday, has been reported to the coroner the circumstances of his demise having…
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GLOUCESTER, Monday.--A serious blasting accident occurred on Saturday afternoon at 31 mile camp on the third section of the railway, 12 miles from Gloucester. A large number of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Drowning Accident
Marcell Eva Patchett, aged 4½ years, was drowned in a waterhole near her parents' residence, Collins-street, Chatswood, yesterday. The child was trying to catch some…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Accidentally Drowned. Bathurst
A magisterial inquest was held to-day, before Mr. Gloster S. White, Deputy Coroner, touching the death of Samuel Harold Weaver, a lad, who was found drowned in Jordan…
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The amount of compensation in connection with the Braybrook collision reached £124,000. Already £125,000 has been paid to claimants in connection with the Richmond accident, and it…
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A sad drowning accident occurred at Chatswood yesterday morning, a little girl. Ban Marcella Eva Patchett, 4½ years, being the victim. The child was playing near a waterhole on…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Drowned in Centennial Park. Verdict of Accidental Death
The City Coroner this morning inquired into the death of Mrs. Mary Ann Ross, whose, body was found in a pond in the Centennial Park on the 11th inst…
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FORBES, Tuesday.--Cecil Grinsted (20), oldest son of Mr. E. J. Grinsted, newsagent, was drowned in the Lachlan River last night at about 7 o'clock. He went with two youths for a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Killed by a Motor-gar. the Sutherland Fatality. Verdict of Accidental. Death
The City Coroner concluded his inquiry this afternoon into the death,of Henry Charles M'Pherson, 7 years of age, who was knocked down by a motor-car on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Timber-worker Crushed. Fatality on a Barque
The timber laborer, Harold Thorgensen, who met with a serious accident on the barque Almora in Johnstone's Bay yesterday, died in Sydney Hospital early this morning…
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An inquiry was held by the City Coroner this morning into the death of a boy named Victor Hurley, 10 years of age, whose body was found in a waterhole on the flats at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Child's Painful Death. Strathfield Burning Accident
The Parramatta District Coroner (Mr. E. L. Maitland, S.M.) held an inquiry, at the Burwood Court House on Tuesday afternoon, touching the death of Maxwell Hilton Dight, which…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Moree Visitor Killed. While Stepping From Railway Car. Accident at Sydney Station
Two Moree residence, Miss Susan Pearce, 54, and Mrs. Boydell a relative, arrived at the Sydney Railway Station this morning at 6.25. Miss Pearce was stopping off the train at No…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Casualties. Accident at Darling Island
Edward Byers, 39, boatswain on the steamer Runic, was conveyed to Sydney Hospital by the Civil Ambulance yesterday, and admitted by Dr. M'Intosh suffering from severe…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Painful Accident. Singleton
Norman Durham, 16 years of age, living at Glendon, met with a peculiar and painful accident. He was attempting to drive a nail into a piece of hardwood, and hit obliquely…
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The steamer Herbert collided with a jetty near Adelaide yesterday, and had a hale knocked in her side. She is now beached about three miles from Port Victoria. The…
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