Accident or Foul Play? Death of Wong Kay
On Tuesday, Wong Tay (62), a Chinese from Tamworth, was found lying on the footway in Campbell Street, city, in an apparently dying condition. He was taken to the Sydney…
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Fatalities and Accidents a Woman's Death
Early yesterday Mary Shepley (47), who lived with her sister in Despointes Street, Marrickville, was found burnt to death in a yard. The features were charred beyond…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bathing Fatality. Boy Drowned in Parramatta Park
On Thursday about 1 p.m., a boy, Norman Fisher Yabsley, aged between 14 and 15 years, lost his life whilst bathing just beside Ring's Bridge,. Parramatta…
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Francis James Long, 45, while surfing at Narrabeen on the 10th ult., was carried out very quickly by the waves. The local surf club was there with a reel. A man named Exton…
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TAREE, Friday.--William Griffiths, for many years carrying on business as a collar-marker near the railway gates, fell into the river at Fotheringham's Wharf yesterday afternoon, and…
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William and Ben Doughty, fishermen, of Lowe-street, Clovelly, yesterday found the body of a man off the Bombora, in Garden Bay, Coogee. Decomposition had advanced…
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Just after midday the dead body of a boy, Henry Roberts, aged nine, was found floating in the harbor near Dawes Point boatsheds…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mine Fatality. Murrurundi
A Scotsman, whose name is supposed to be Duncan Crawford, was killed in a shocking manner at the British Australian Oil Company's shale mine at Tomi at midnight. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collision Off the Heads
Early yesterday morning a collision occurred off Sydney Heads between the pilot steamer Captain Cook and the Hawkesbury River S.N. Company's…
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Shortly before 1 a.m. yesterday the Pilot steamer Captain Cook and the Hawkesbury River steamer Erringhi collided between Sydney Heads. Both vessels were entering the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Soldier Drowned. Melbourne
Several privates of the Light Horse reinforcements at Broadmeadows camp went to a creek at Campbellfield to-day for the purpose of watering their horses. One of them, James…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Thornleigh. Drowned in a Lagoon
On Sunday, Miss L[?]a Hollingdale, a popular pupil of Loretto College, Normanhurst, was drowned in a lagoon at Narooma, near Nowra. She had motored…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Casualties. Drowned in Parramatta River
Norman Fisher Nabsley, residing with his parents in Argyle-street, Parramatta, was drowned in the freshwater portion of the river. He was bathing with other lads, and it is…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Boy Drowned at Dawes Point
While trying to pull a piece of timber out of the water at the metal wharf, Daw[?] Point, this morning. Henry Joseph Roberts, 7, of [?] George-street North, overbalanced, and fell…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatality in a Mine. Condobolin
A fatal accident happened at Potter's mine, now being worked by tributers. George Atkins, who was in charge of the tributers, went down to about the 200ft level to ascertain the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Off the Heads. Vessels in Collision
A collision occurred off Sydney Heads early yesterday morning, between the pilot steamer Captain Cook and the Hawkesbury River S.N. Company's steamer Erringhi…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Coffee Pala[?]e Mystery. Little Boy Injured in a Lift
A [?] year-old boy, named Henry Waldon, was found at the [?] of the lift-wall at the Great Western Coffee Palace, Hay [?] streets, city, this afternoon, with the [?] of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mail Trains Blocked. Shunting Accident at Gunning. Van and Waggons Derailed
About 11 o'clock last night a [?] accident occurred at Gunning, when a brakevan and two cattle waggons were derailed. The obstruction completely blocked the up line, but…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shooting Accident. West Maitland
Francis J. Beatty, son of Mr. J. C. Beatty, of Homeville, met with a painful accident yesterday. He was out shooting at Aberglasslyn, and put his gun down under a tree…
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PORTLAND, Friday.--George Lindholm (52) was fatally injured at the Commonwealth Portland Cement Company's quarry yesterday afternoon by being struck on the neck by a piece of…
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