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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1895

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Accident at Grata

Singleton Argus · Saturday 13 July 1895 · page 4

An accident happened at the Greta coal pit on Wednesday by which a miner named Jacob Gibson was seriously injured. At 3 o'clock a fall of top coal came away,…

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Accident to Mountain Climbers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 July 1895 · page 5

0News has been received of a shocking accident I to a party of mountaineers at the Tyrol. The party, which consisted of three English gentlemen and two ladies, while ascending the Ortlier Spitz…

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Accident to Mountaineers Two LAdies Seriously Injured. [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 17 July 1895 · page 2

A SHOCKING accident has occurred to a party of mountaineers in the Tyrol. The party, which consisted of three English gentlemen and two ladies…

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Moree. Fatal Accident to a Jockey

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 July 1895 · page 5

At the Amateur Picnic races yesterday. iu the Gwydir Handicap, Jerry Cleugh's Mario fell with Dennis Toohig, his jockey, and Harper a Belfast, ridden by W. Watham, fell over him. Dr. Eisner…

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A Railway Accident. a Mail Train Collides with Cattle. Engine and Lavatory Carriage Derailed. the Passengers Uninjured. [By Telegraph] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 17 July 1895 · page 2

A SENSATIONAL accident happened to the Sydney to Melbourne express train about three miles from Albury at 5.15 this morning, when travelling…

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To-day's Telegraphs. Sydney. a Serious Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 July 1895 · page 3

Thomas Kirkby, employed at the Centennial Park, was the victim of a serious blasting Hccideat to-day. A charge had been rammed home, when, without warning, it exploded, scattering stones in…

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Sensation, Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 July 1895 · page 1

At an inquest on a girl, aged 13, who died in a London hospital in child birth the stepfather gave evidence. With tears he confessed that the girl…

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Melbourne. a Terbible Mining Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 July 1895 · page 3

A telegram received from Eldorado, near Ballarat, states that an awful accident occurred there at four o'clock this morning. The end of a drive came down in McEvoy and Company's mine at a time…

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Broken Hill. the Late Fatal Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 July 1895 · page 3

At the inquest on the eight men killed at the Hill Barrier Mine, a verdict was returned that the disaster was accidental, and, as it was unprecedented in its advent, it could not have been…

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Sensational Accident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 July 1895 · page 13

A sensational accident occurred to the Sydney to Melbourne express train about three miles from Albury at 5.45 on Tuesday morning. When travelling through a cutting known as "Fallon's Gap" at…

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Fatal Accident to a Jockey

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 July 1895 · page 15

At the Moree Amateur Picnic races, on Tuesday, in the Gwydir Handicap, Cleugh's Mario fell with Dennis Toobig, his jockey, and Harper's Belfast, ridden hy W. Watham, fell over him. Dr. Elsner…

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Sulky Accident

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 July 1895 · page 4

On Thursday morning Mrs James Shelton was out driving in a sulky, and when passing the residence of the Hon. A. J. Gould. the horse, ordinarily a must quiet…

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A Blasting Accident. [By Telegraph] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 July 1895 · page 4

ONE of the Centennial Park relied workmen, Thomas Kirkby,wasseriously injured by an explosion whilst blasting some reck this morning. His face [?]…

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Fatal Accident at Broken Hill. Eight Men Killed

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 July 1895 · page 4

A TERRIBLE accident occurred at the South mine, Broken Hill, on Thursday Owing to a sudden fall of earth eight men were killed. Their names…

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Sensation, Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 24 July 1895 · page 1

Four Ministers And ox-Ministers of Newfoundland have been arrested on a charge of falsifying balance-sheets when occupying the position of…

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Fatal Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 July 1895 · page 3

A labourer named James McCarty was thrown out of a cart and crushed to death in Castlereagh-street this morning…

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Collision

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 26 July 1895 · page 2

A collision occurred in Castlereagh street this morning between a fire brigade engine and a cart driven by a man named James McCarty, a…

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Fatal Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 July 1895 · page 3

A verdict of accidental death was returned at an inquest on the body of James McCarthy, who was fatally injured yesterday in a collision between a cart and a fire engine…

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The Sensation of Drowning

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 July 1895 · page 3

A "woman, "who was among those saved in the accident in Morecambe Bay, is reported in the papers to have said that she remembered sinking twice, and thinking she had "only to…

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Sensation. Fatality & Crime

Singleton Argus · Saturday 27 July 1895 · page 1

Hudson, the man who was arrested in London on suspicion of murdering his wife and child, has been convicted and sentenced to death. The evidences…

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