Peculiar Accident. Goulburn
Mr. A. E. Grovenor, commission agent, of Melbourne, was travelling to Gunning in the paper train, when his portmanteau fell from the rack on to his head, rendering him…
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Mine Accident. Kurri Kurri
John Thompson, 48, a minor, was shockingly. Injured in the Pelaw Main colliery on Tuesday. Both his legs were broken, his skull seriously injured, and his ribs broken…
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An accident occurred at No. 3 North Columbin mine, Gympie, to-day. Between 12.30 and 1 o'clock a man named Alfred Edwards was returning to the face after firing to work…
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A child of 11 years, Aflred James willongnoy of Park-street, Arneliffe was found drowned yesterday a few miles from his home. The boy was missed from his home the…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.--A drowning fatality occurred this morning at Whitely, a grazing property 12 miles from Chinchilla, on the Condamine River. A Young man, William Sidney…
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Two selectors named Lowe and Tinckness were drowned about a mile from Burnestown, on the Gayndah line, Maryborough district. Lowe's body…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Late Cable News. Received To-day. Street Car Accident. Five Persons Drowned
SHEROYAN, WISCONSIN, U.S.A. Night.—A street car here to-day went through a drawbridge, and one man, three women, and one child were drowned…
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VANCOUVER, Thursday.--A locomotive exploded at Smithville, Texas, yesterday. Ten railway men were killed and 11 injured…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Engine Boiler Explodes. Ten Killed--eleven Injured New York
The boiler of a locomotive engine that was under repair at the Smithville (Tex.) yards of the Missouri Pacific Railway exploded, with the result that ten men were…
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Mr. Beeby, N.S.W. minister for labor, has decided to prohibit the employment of boys and females at work in which dangerous machinery is used…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Broke His Neck. a Sad Accident
The youth G. E. M. Puff, 16 years of age, who on Tuesday morning was pinned by the neck between a setting-out machine and the floor at Birdsall's tannery. North Botany…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatalities and Accidents. Boy Drowned While Swimming
A twelve-year-old boy, George Alfred Perman, was drowned in Middle Harbor yesterday. He was swimming there in the afternoon with some companions, and going some distance away…
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George Alfred penman 12 who lived at Friday's Wharf-road Lindfield was swimming with some companions a middle Harber [?] Friday afternoon when [?] out some…
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Whilst swimming with a number of young companions in Middle Harbour yesterday, George Alfred Penman, 12, lately living with his uncle, William Wilk, who resides in…
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Alfred James Willoughby, 11, who resided with his parents in Park-street, Arncliffe, was found drowned in Woolli Creek on Thursday morning. The lad had been missing from…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A Plucky Lad. Tries to Save His Comrade. Middle Harbor Drowning Case
Inquire a made by the police concerning the death of the lad. George [?] Penman aged 12 years and four months. she was drowned in the upper reached of Middle Harbor on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Men Drowned. Wreck of the Jessie Niccol. Wellington (N.z.)
Those drowned by the wreck of the Jessie Niccol on Macquarie Island the week before Christmas were Holmes, the captain; Paterson, the mate, and Mercer, the cook. The…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Toll of the Air. Double Fatality in France. New Military Machine Fails. Paris, Feb. 10
Another aeroplane fatality has been reported. MM. Noel and Delatorre, in completing an hour's flight in a new military machine…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A Sea Tragedy. Eussian Baeque Overturns. Twenty-three Men Drowned. Survivor Swims 15 Miles. Fremantle
Reports of a terrible tragedy of the sea, resulting in the loss of the Russian barque Glenbauk and 23 of the crew, were received at Fremantle to-day from Roebourne…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Handling High Explosives. Maxim Tells of Accidents and Narrow Escapes
"It is practically impossible," writes Hudson Maxim, in the new magazine, "Adventure," "to make the ordinary laboring man appreciate the necessity of care in the safe handling of…
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