Burnt to Death Folly Point Fatality
The City Coroner has received a report from Sergeant Dobson, of North Sydney, regarding the death of Clari Bear, aged 44, a widow, which occurred…
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Drowned in Beer Ex-Sergeant's Suicide LONDON, August 13
Arthur Tillett, a former sergeant in the army, and a holder of the Military Medal, committed suicide in a 9000-gallon vat of sour beer in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thrown From His Horse Apprentice Jockey Injured
The apprentice Jockey J. Chevalley met with an accident while this morning riding home from Randwick Racecourse on a Lingere (imp), filly, belonging to his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pope Injured. Slipped on Waxed Floor. London, August 14
A report from Rome states that the Pope slipped on a waxed floor while walking from his bedroom to the library, slightly injuring his knee…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Car Upset. Six People Injured. Car Catches Fire
In endeavoring to avert a collision with a cart, a motor car was overturned at the corner, of Concord Road and Carrington Street, Concord, on Saturday night. The car caught fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Exposure to Cold Railway Accident Victims
Mr. Jamieson, City Coroner, at the conclusion to-day of on inquiry into the circumstances of a railway fatality at Carlton Station on August 4. was asked…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Kiamala-jap Collision
As a result of inquiry by the Superintendent of Navigation into the circumstances re tho recent collision between the Sydney Ferry steamer Kiamala and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Jockey Injured
While riding a filly by Linacre (imp.) from Astron from the Randwick Racecourse after training yesterday, J. Chevalley, an apprentice jockey, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Milk-carter Injured
George Brown, 34, a milk-carter, living in The Grove, Paddington, was walking beside his horse and cart in Devonshire-street, Surry Hills, yesterday morning, when the horse…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ballway Fatality. Conflicting Evidence at Inquest
The denth of Albert Marriott, 4[?], a ganger at a gasworks, who was run over hy a train at Carlton Station on August 4, was investigated by the City Coroner yesterday Conflicting evidence was given concerning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →400 Persons Drowned. Tokio, August 15
It is announced that 400 persons were drowned in the recent floods in Saghalien Island…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drowned at Newcastle. Captain of Brigantine Jeanette
The body of Captain Charles G. F. Peterson, master of the American brigantine Jeanette, which is lying at Newcastle, was found on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man falls 30 Feet Accident in the City
While working on a scaffolding at John Keep and Sons' building, at the corner of King and Kent streets, City, to-day, Thomas Lambert. 17. fell about 30ft. with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatality at Eveleigh Mother Gets Compensation
While working a steam hammer in the loco blacksmiths shop at Eveleigh on November 11, 1919, Sidney Smith was struck in the abdomen by an Iron…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Taxi and Cab Collision in Oxford-street
Mrs. Mary Buckland (46), of Abercromble-stret, Redfern, was in a cab standing at the corner of Oxford and Crown streets last night, when a text collided…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Drowned at Newcastle. Captain of Brigantine Jeanette
The body of Captain Charles G. F. Peterson, master of the American brigantine Jeanette. which is lying at Newcastle, was found on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →District Court. (Before Judge Backhouse.) Collision on Parramatta-road. McCulloch v Hartley
A collision between a sulky and a motor car on the Parramatta-road, near the Sydney University, on May 2 last, was the subject of two actions for damages for…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Recent Railway Accident. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—Apropos of the recent sad railway accident at Hurstville, some day there will be a collision on the Western Suburbs line, and a sorrowing crowd of parents will be secking…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Harbor Collision
A collision between the Watson's Bay ferry steamer Vaucluse and Messrs. Fenwick's tug Newburgh, was reported to the Navigation Department yesterday. Both vessels were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Scenes When Collision Occurred Accounts of Eye-Witnesses
William Nelarin Mathieson, laborer, said that he was sitting in one of the middle carriage. when he felt a terrific [?] and was thrown from his seat on…
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