A Costly Accident. Dry Dock Caves In. Antwerp, Feb. 20
A dry dock, which is under construction here, caved in, and 200 workmen narrowly escaped being overwhelmed by the inrush of water…
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Burning Accident. Cobar
A serious accident occurred at te Great Cobar on Saturday afternoon. Stokes, a single man, was working loading a dray on the eastern side of the furnaces, when a motor…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →French Railway Accidents. Officials Transferred. Paris, Feb. 19
The Government has transferred the director and assistant directors of the Western Railway elsewhere. M. Clavesville, the Road Surveyor, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Court of Marine Inquiry. Accident to the Steamship Cufic. (Before Mr. P. J. Dwyer, P.M., and Captains 'J. F. Anderson and J. L. Stalker, skilled members.)
Formal inquiry into the cause of the serious damage alleged to have been occasioned of the hull and propellers of the White Star s.s. Cufic., when being…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Tram Traffic Disorganised Two Accidents in the City
Two tramway accidents, within a quartet of an hour of each other, Interrupted traffic In the city for a short while this morning. The first, which occurred just after 8…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fatalities and Accidents. Fall From a Tram Car
Annie Morris, a single woman, of Lowson-crescent, Alexandria, tell from a tram car in Alexander-street, Alexandria, last night, and dislocated her right shoulder. She was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Boating Accident at New Hebrides. Five Lives Lost
News was received yesterday from the New Hebrides of a serious boating accident resulting in the loss of five lives. According to advices by the mail, Mr. Pitt a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boulder Smashes Into Train. Fatal Accident in New Zealand
WELLINGTON, Monday. -- While the Napier express was passing Paikakarcka a boulder rolled from the hillside, smashed into a second-class carriage, killing Miss Power, and…
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James Swift, master of the steam-tug Britannia, was fined [?]5 in default one month, at Water Summons Court for a breach of the harbor navigation regulations on February I. The information stated that Swift, when…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.--The police have received a report from Caboolture to the effect that Charles Goodwin was drowned off Turbul Point yesterday. He was out in a boat in a heavy…
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PENRITH, Tuesday.--A sad case of drowning has been reported to the local police, a young lady, Miss Griffiths, a visitor from Sydney, losing her life whilst bathing in the Nepean…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sailor Drowned. Companion's Narrow Escape Coal Lumper's Plucky Act
Shortly after 5 o'clock this morning the steam collier Five lslands. heavily Isden. left Miller's Point for Circular Quay with coal for the P. and O. steamer Maccdonls. She had…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Caught in the Machinery. Workman Terribly Injured
Joseph Slattery, 30, a casual laborer, employed by the New South Wales Railway Commissioners on the grain elevators at Darling Harbor. was caught in the machinery this…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Accident in the City. Country Visitor Walks Over a Balcony
A visitor from Wyalong named James O'Keefe, suffering from an affliction of the eyes accidentally walked over a balcony and fell into the roadway in Liverpool-street, City, this…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Man Mutilated. Dreadful Crane Accident
A terribly wrecked piece of humanity was borne from the casualty ward at Sydney Hospital to the main building this morning. The patient seemed to be broken wherever…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shocking Tram Accident. a Boy Killed
Last night at 6.37 a boy named Bones, about 9 years of age. the son of a tram-driver, after taking his father's tea to the messroom at Rozelle, was crossing the road…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatal Tram Accident
At the coronial inquiry into the cause of the death of Michael Kenny, who died from injuries received by being knocked down by a tram in George-street, at the Haymarket, last…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fatalities and Accidents. Child's Leg Amputated
A child of 8 12 years, Henry Arthur Bones, was knocked down by a tram in Rozelle yesterday, with the result that one of his legs had to be amputated…
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John Woolner (41). lately residing with his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Barloge, at Cecil Park, Liverpool, was killed by a train at the intersection of Liverpool and…
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