Accident at Block 14
An elderly man named Andrew Tottleson met with an accident at Block 14 yesterday evening through falling down a schute about 10ft. He…
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Accidents, 1897
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Accident in the Open-cut
What it is feared may prove a serious accident occurred this morning to John Gainey. He was working in the open-cut on Block 11, when he was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Fatal Gun Accident. SYDNEY
A lad named Donald, 9 years of age, was playing with a gun when he accidentally shot his sister, aged 18 months. The little one is dead…
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ON inquiry at the Hospital just before going to Press it was ascertained that John Gainey, who was jambed by a skip in the open-out on Block 11,…
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Walter Puckeridge, a lad of 19, was out fishing in a boat yesterday when he fell overboard and was drowned…
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Andrew Jenkinson, aged 48, had an epileptic fit while in a bath on Sunday and was drowned in 14in. of water. A miner named John Francis,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Collision. [By Telegraph.] Sydeny, Monday Afternoon
The Homebush outward passenger train and the Hurstville inward passenger train came into collision at Eveleight to-day. One carriage of the…
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WHILE a selector named Coffey was at work building a shed this morning, out on the road to Red Hill, a tomahawk he was using to cut some wood slipped and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] a Fall from a Trap. ADELAIDE
An accident occurred at Happy Valley yesterday, when Austin Mariner, a grazier, fell from a trap, which passed over him, breaking his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Sad Burning Fatality. SYDNEY
Two brothers, William Claude and Leslie Blyton, aged respectively 11 and 9 years, lived with their parenbs at Erskineville, where there is a brick…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Collision. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Monday Afternoon
The Homebush outward passenger train and the Hurstville inward passenger train came into collision at Eveleigh to-day. One carriage of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Serious Railway Collision. Sydney
A serious collision occurred at Redfern railway station yesterday. The engine of an outgoing suburban train ran into an incoming train from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accidents and Fataliti[?]s. [By Telegraph.] An Awfully Sudden Death. SYDNEY
J. M'Nally was conversing with his family last night, when he fell from his chair dead. He suffered from heart disease…
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Our Adelaide correspondent wires:—On Tuesday morning, when going down a shaft at Moonta, Captain Thornes Cornelius was struck by falling earth and knocked off the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Open Cut Fatality
THE inquest on the body of John Gainey (the opening of which was reported in the Becond edition) was concluded this evening. Evidence…
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AN inquest was held this afternoon on the body of John Gainey, who met with an accident in the open cut, Block 11, on the 28th ultimo, and died…
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John Gainey, who met with an accident in the open cut, Block ll (Proprietary), on January 28, died in the Hospital last evening. Gainey, it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] a Fatal Earthslip. SYDNEY
Jessie Rixon, aged 8. was walking along the bank of the river at Bega after attending Sunday-school yesterday. The bank gave way, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Open Cut Fatality. Verdict of Accidental Death
THE inquest on the body of John Gainey, miner, who died in the Hospital on Sunday, was extended last night until 7 o'clock. Full inquiry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following appeared in our late editions yesterday:— the Open Out Fatality. Inquest on the Body
Air inquest was held this afternoon on the body of John Gainey, who met with an accident in the open cot, Block ll, on the 28th ultimo, and died…
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