Fatal Blasting Accident. (From the S.M. Herald.) Melbourne
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 September 1891 · page 7
A terrible accident occurred this afternoon at the Hoffmann Brick Company's Works, Brunswick. It appears that a driller named Charles Andrews was at work "tamping" a charge of 14lb. of powder, in,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Collision between Steamers. 70 Persons Drowned. London, Saturady
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 September 1891 · page 4
A COLLISION occorred off Oape Suniuno, in the Levant, between the Italian Messangerias steamer toormina and the Greek Steamer thessalia, when 40…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 24 September 1891 · page 2
Since warm weather is coming on, and since, upon an average a bey a day will be drowned until snow flies in ordinary bathing, to say nothing of yachting accidents and tumbles overboard, it is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The West Sydney Hustings Accident. (Echo.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 September 1891 · page 2
In the Metropolitan District Court yesterday before his Honor Judge Gibson, the case of Bubb v. Simpson was heard. Mr. Noble, instructed by Mr. S. J. Bull, appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disasters and Accidents
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 30 September 1891 · page 4
TWENTY-FOUR persons were killed by the railway collision at Burgos. Among the victions was Mr J. Srymour Lu[?] A.R.A., the well-known English painter…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Accident to a Parachutist
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 1 October 1891 · page 8
A fatal accident occurred on Saturday evening (Aug. 8) at Kirkstall, suburb of Leeds, in connection with a parachute descent, which resulted in the death of Mr. Higgins, the aeronaut, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fatal Boat Accident. a Regrettable Occurrence. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Tuesday Evening
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 7 October 1891 · page 3
A FATAL boat acciddent occurred yesterday in the Murray, near Albury. A young man named Edward Saunders last his life and three other young men…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatality on Mont Blanc
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 10 October 1891 · page 6
The following particulars (a Geneva telegram to Reuter says) have been received regarding the fatal accident which occurred on Mont Blanc, on Friday, AuguBt 21, when M. Roth, a visitor from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Teralba Railway Accident. Caused by the Tender Being in Front
Singleton Argus · Saturday 10 October 1891 · page 2
THE icquest on the body of George Cockroft, the fireman killed on the Great Northern Railway on the 30th ultimo, was concladed at Newcastle on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Accident on the Zig-zag. (From Saturday's Echo.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 October 1891 · page 3
An accident, which resulted in injuries to four men, happened between 10 and 11 o'clock last night on the Great Zig-zag, on the Blue Mountains, just beyond Eskbank…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Collision
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 14 October 1891 · page 2
The Brindisi mail train came into collision with a goods train at Carovigno, in Italy. One passenger was injnred. Mr H. M. Stanley was a passenger by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Local Drowning Fatality. Two Lives Lost
Singleton Argus · Saturday 17 October 1891 · page 2
A most lamentable fatality, in which two well town local youths—Percy Clark, aged 7, and William Thompson, aged 10—lost their lives, occurred in Howe Park on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Singleton. Drowning Fatality on Howe Park.—inquest on the Bodies
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 October 1891 · page 3
Since the lamentable occurrence on the 20th December, 1885, when two fine young girls, budding into womanhood, were drowned in the Hunter River, near Singleton, and which will forever…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Railway Collision. Five Deaths. [By Cable.] London
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 21 October 1891 · page 2
A DISA[?]TROU[?]S railway collision is reported from Ki[?]lfort, in Siberia, 5 persons being killed and many injured…
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Singleton Argus · Wednesday 21 October 1891 · page 2
The feet that that pen has not yet been put through the name of Carbine, is being severely commented upon. He was out on the track this morning, but only did walking…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Railway Accident. a Signalman Killed
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 21 October 1891 · page 3
SHORTLY after half-past 5 o'clock on Monday morning a fatal accident happened at the Petersham railway station. As the 5.38 a.m. train from Petersham to Sydney was leaving…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To Keep from Drowning
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 24 October 1891 · page 3
To keep from drowning it ia not necessary to know how to swim. This may seem at first a rather strong assertion, but much depende on the meaning that is attached to the word…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Fatal Accident. Sad Death by Scalding. (By Telegraph.) Newcastle
Singleton Argus · Saturday 24 October 1891 · page 2
MRS ALEKANDER WATT, of the Great Northern Hotel, Newcastle, died this morning through having accidentally scalded herself at the Australia Hotel a few days…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Accident to a Jockey
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 October 1891 · page 6
An accident of a serious nature happened on the Moore[?]eld Racecourse on Saturday afternoon, resulting in a jockey named William Curran being seriously injured, and from which fatal results are…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An Unlucky Spot. Accidents to Clergymen
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 28 October 1891 · page 3
ON Saturday afternoon, as Fathers Rogers [?] M'Ellaton were driving home to Branxton from Greta, the horse shied at something in the road and drew one side of the buggy…
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