Fatalities and Accidents Decapitated on Railway
The body of John Carrey (82), was found at an early hour yesterday morning on the railway line near Chatswood. The head had been completely severed from the body, and was…
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Narrow Escape From Drowning
DUNGOG, Friday. -- A young man named Ralston, while endeavoring, in a buggy, to cross the river, which was swollen, at Brookfield, was swept down, but through immediate…
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ARMIDALE, Friday. -- A sad fatality marred the conclusion of the Jubilee meeting of the Armidale and New England J.C. yesterday, when a jockey, James Henry Rose, met his death. The…
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Albert Franklin (30) received such injuries yesterday, as a result of falling from the top of an electric-lighting pole in Livingstoneroad, Marrickville, that he died shortly after…
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Stephen Allen, 56, a blacksmith, living in [?]-street, Summer Hill, was driving a horse and sulky along Belmore-road, Canterbury, when he tumbled out of the vehicle. The…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →City Stabbing Fatality. State Reward Contemplated
In Aiew of the Government reward contemplated in regard to the alleged murder of Alexander David ("Snowy.") Fulton, the City Coroner (Mr. H. S. Hawkins) yesterday…
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It is believed that the portion of a human boby and the bags of chaff seen by the bechede-mer schooner, near the Franklin Islands, and which it was at first thought might help…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two Lives Lost in Drowning Tragedy Squall Capsizes Boat. Timely Rescue
A fishing party of four men came to a sensational and tragic ending a short distance from point Ormond Pier, at St. Kilda (Melbourne). Two of the party were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Adelaide Floods. Washed Away and Drowned. Body Up a Tree
ADELAIDE, Friday. -- The terrific rainstorm which burst over South Australia yesterday did an immense amount of damage to the railways, roads, bridges, and private property, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Motor Cycling. Sydney-melbourne Record. a Rider Injured
Rather unexpectedly J. A. Gunn and J. Booth, both Victorian motor cyclists, left the Sydney G.P.O. at 1 a.m. yesterday in an attempt to lower the record between Sydney…
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Alderman [?] ex-Mayor of Goulburn was driving his sister-in-lay. Miss Wallings, [?] the railway station in his motor this morning when the steering gear failed…
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NEWCASTLE, Friday. -- A sensational attempt at suicide was made in a sailor's clothing shop this afternoon. A man reported to Constable Pickering that…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Sydney to Melbourne. the Motor Cycle Record. Gunn Injured. Tyler Postpones Attempt
Eric Tyler, who had arranged to leave the General Post Office last evening at 9 in an endeavor to lower the Sydney-Melbourne record postponed his dash between the two capitals for a week. From reports to hand, it…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Walking Party Run Down by Motor. Woman Killed and Man Injured Driver Arrested
A sensational collision occurred at Aspendale (Vic.) late one night last week. A motor car containing two men and two women scattered a walking party and killed Mrs. Donald,…
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About 10 45 pm, last Saturday a man passing the stock boards signal on the railway at Katoomba, heard groans, and, going over, found a man named William Hessell,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tram Bumps Motor-car. Accident in Castlereagh-street
A tram bound for Circular Quay collided with a motor-car owned by Mr. A. C. W. Poison, of Eglemore, Sloan-street, Summer Hill, in front of the Hotel Australia this…
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The bones of a human arm and hand were found by two boys on Thursday afternoon, near the lagoon at Manly. They were lying just above the water-mark on the sand, close to the…
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On Thursday, about 4.30 a.m., a rather sensational smash-up on the railway took place at "Wentworthville, near Wheatley's old homestead, a portion of which is…
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Ernest James (17) of Argyle-street, Parramatta, had got his thumb under a steam punch at Clyde Works. He went to the Parramatta Hospital for the thumb…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stockton Borehole Fatality Newcastle
An inquest was held at Wallsend to-day on a miner named Samuel Roberts, who was killed at Stockton Borehole Colliery on Tuesday night last, by a fail of stone. The…
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