Serious Omnibus Accident. (By telegraph from yesterday's Herald.) Melbourne
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 10 May 1883 · page 5
A serious omnibus accident happened near the Fitzroy Gardens this afternoon, by which some of the passengers—of whom there were nine altogether—were seriously injured. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Late Circus Accident at Barraba. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 10 May 1883 · page 3
SIR—Allow me through the columns of your valuable paper to contradict the telegraphic statement made by your Moree correspondent concerning the accident which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Serious Omnibus Accident
Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 May 1883 · page 4
MELBOURNE, Tuesday:- A serious bus accident occurred this afternoon at Jolimont owing to the reins breaking while the vehicle was being driven down…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sad Fatality at Lake Macquarie. Three Men Drowned. (From the Newcastle Herald, May 14.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 May 1883 · page 4
News reached Newcastle on Saturday afternoon of a boat being missing, with three fishermen aboard, who were supposed to have been drowned. The rumour turned out too…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Drowning of Professor Walker
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 May 1883 · page 6
The following particulars are given in the New Zealand papers of the lamentable boat accident off Shelly Beach, Ponsonby, in which Professor Walker, of the Auckland University…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Remarkable Circular Saw Accident
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 19 May 1883 · page 4
The premises at Nos. 9,11, and 13 York Street, New York, are used for an extensive packing box factory, conducted by George Blair. About forty men are employed there. In the rear of No. 13 is a long,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Railway Accident at the Zigzag. (Echo, May 17.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 19 May 1883 · page 7
At a quarter-past 10 o'clock last night a serious railway accident, resulting in the death of a fireman, the injury of another, and the destruction of several goods trucks loaded with live stock, occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fatal Railway Accident near Lithgow. (By Telegraph to the Herald.) Lithgow
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 May 1883 · page 6
A collision, attended with fatal consequences, occurred on Wednesday last about 10 p.m., within two miles of the Esk Bank Railway Station, and about one mile from the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Late Fatal Accident at Cessnock
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 May 1883 · page 6
Respecting the dreadful fatal accident to James Gorman, at Cessnock, on Thursday evening, the particulars of which were briefly reported in our last issue, Mr. J. J. Riley,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shocking Railway Accident. (From the Herald's correspondent.) Melbourne
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 2 June 1883 · page 6
A shocking accident happened on the railway near Longwood station, on the North-Eastern line, this evening. The afternoon train from Melbourne had got within about half-a-mile of Longwood when…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lamentable and Fatal Accident at Peate's Ferry. (From a Correspondent)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 June 1883 · page 6
Last Saturday afternoon, the 26th of May, a special messenger came over the rugged mountains to the westward of Gosford, and reported to the authorities at that township…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Extraordinary Series of Accidents
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 7 June 1883 · page 3
The Maryborough Chronicle reports that three serious accidents occurred to the crew of the Egmont, while she was lying at Lake Creek Meat-preserving Works, Rockhampton,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shocking Fatality near Coolamon. (Wagga Wagga Express, June 5.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 9 June 1883 · page 5
On Friday afternoon last a most distressing occurrence took place at Messrs. M'Crae and Co.'s saw mills, situated at Berry Jerry, about six miles from Coolamon. A young man…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shocking Mining Accident at Eaglehawk, Victoria. (Argus of Wednesday.) Eaglehawk
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 30 June 1883 · page 3
A terrible accident, which has caused the death of two miners, named, respectively, Joseph Noble, aged about 45 years, a married man living at Sailor's Gully, who loaves a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Railway Accident
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 30 June 1883 · page 3
On the night of Whit-Monday, May 14, one of the most disastrous railway accidents that has happened in Scotland for some time occurred at Lockerbie Station, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Serious Blasting Accident at Eaglehawk. (From the Melbourne Argus' correspondent.) Eaglehawk, Thursday evening
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 July 1883 · page 7
A very serious accident, caused by the premature explosion of a shot, occurred last night about 10 o'clock in the United Devonshire Company's mine, head of Eaglehawk,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Hawthorne Railway Accident. (By Telegraph to Herald.) Melbourne
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 July 1883 · page 3
The Hawthorne Inquiry Board report has been published. It reviews all the circumstances which led up to the accident, and states that Hunt, the guard of the special…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Football. South Melbourne F. CLUB v. Northern Team. No game was ever yet worth a rap For a rational man to play, In which no accident, no mishap, Could possibly find its way
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 19 July 1883 · page 4
So sang poor Adam Lindsay Gordon, and so apparently think the thousands who annually follow the grand old English game, football, as a pleasure and a pastime. Tuesday last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Horrible Mining Accident in Victoria
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 31 July 1883 · page 4
The Sandhurst correspondent of the Argus furnishes the following particulars of the appalling accident at Lansell's No. 180 claim New Chum, on Tuesday, by which a miner…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accidentally Poisoned by Carbolic Acid. (From the Narrabri Herald, Aug. 1.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 4 August 1883 · page 3
Considerable excitement was occasioned on Monday afternoon, by a report becoming current in the town that Mr. David Morrison Fraser had been accidentally poisoned by…
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