Fatalities and Accidents. Tram Accident
Shortly after 5 p.m. yesterday Philip Donnelley (33), a cab proprietor from Bathurst, was crossing Castlereagh-street, near Liverpool-street, when he was knocked down by a…
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Hydroplane Fatality. Paris, Saturday Morning
At Fecamp, near Havre, a hydroplane overturned. The aviator was rescued, but the mechanic was drowned…
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The Danish steamer Volmer foundered on Christmas Day during the terrible gale in the English Channel. Her captain and one sailor were picked up off The Lizard after two days' suffering in an open boat…
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John Evans, 48, was walking across King-street, Newtown, last night, when he was knocked down by a sulky. His right shoulder was broken, and he sustained severe…
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An accident occurred at the Farnborough flying grounds to-day to one of the array pattern British biplanes. The pilot fell a distance of 50 feet, and had…
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Albert Gore, a wheat sampler, residing in Glenmorc-road, Padldington, was standing alongside a railway truck at Darling Island yesterday afternoon, when the door of the truck fell on his left leg, causing a compound…
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It is always dangerous to leave baby-carriages unattended outside of shop-doors. The slightest push is like [?] to start a perambulator down a slanting pavement, with the risk of…
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A compositor,. William Greenaway, 42, who lives at Landers-street, Redfern, is lying in the Sydney Hospital severely injured about the head and face…
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Fishermen found the body of Lily Pring, 38, of Croydon floating near Gladesville bridge on Friday afternoon. They handed the dead body over to the ferry steamer Kamiri, by…
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PARIS, Saturday.--A hydro-aeroplane overturned at Fecamp, on the English Channel, near Havre, the mechanic being drowned. The aviator was rescued…
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IPSWICH, Saturday.--Philip Hardgreaves, a railway guard, while engaged shunting at Redbank to-day, was caught between trucks. His hip was severely injured…
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WEST WYALONQ, Saturday.--Albert Loslie Cunnington, aged five and a half, was accidentally drowned yesterday in a dam close to his home, situated at Cleveland, Youngee Plains, 17…
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The six-year-old son of Mr. A. W. Cunnington, a farmer, of Hiawatha, West Wyalong, was drowned in a stock tank during the absence of his parents in town…
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Leonard Lukin, 24 years of age, an electric linesman, living at Canterbury, met with a serious accident at the Tempe Tramway Depot about 10 o'clock this morning, and he was…
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LONDON, Saturday.--A motor-car convoying gold to Purflect for the payment of wages became stuck at a railway crossing. A train dashed into the car while thus held up,…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.--At Mallacoota this morning, a sailing boat with live occupants capsized. John Dorron, sen., was drowned. The others were saved after clinging to the…
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Henry Murray. [?] a laborer employed at the model farm at Randwick. was driving a cart along the Bunncrong-road. Lower Randwick, this morning, when his horse took fright…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Frances Wood (16) and Helen Mary Easton (12), daughters of tradespeople, were bathing on Warrnambool bench on Saturday with other girls. The sea…
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A distressing hathing fatality occurred at Warrnambool yesterday. The victims were two young girls, named respectively Frances Corothy Wood, aged 16, and Helen Mary…
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In response to a telephone message, Sergeant Sultitude, of the Water Police, went to Lavender Bay at 8.15 o'clock this morning and recovered the body of a man floating on the east…
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