AUSTRALIA.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. EIGHT PERSONS DROWNED. SYDNEY, December 26, The pleasure of the holiday was marred by two serious beating accidents.,, A boat with a picnic party was swamped in the harbour, and four girls, named Lee, Harding, and Ward (2), were drowned. One girl and two men -were rescued. In the second accident a sailing boat capsized, which had twenty-four persons on board, of whom one nun and three women whose name's are unknown were, drowned. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. MELBOURNE, December 26. A railway engine collided with a buggy at Portland, when Mre Taylor and fter fotir children were terribly injured. Four' of them are dead.
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10538, 27 December 1899, Page 5
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