Coach Accident. Some Passengers Injured. Inverell
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 May 1898 · page 5
Last night the mail coach from Glen Innes met with a serious accident, eight and a half miles from Inverell. It appears one of the leading horses shield and carried the coach over an embankment…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 11 May 1898 · page 2
WHILE a drover named Tudor, with a mob of about 60 horses belonging to Mr. Lomax, was driving the animals across the river at M'Cully's crossing…
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Singleton Argus · Thursday 12 May 1898 · page 4
David M'GEACHIE, colliery manager at Killingworth, Apple Tree Flat, Newcastle, was drowned through falling into a sumph at the bottom of…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 14 May 1898 · page 2
THE mail train due here at 5.40 a.m. on Wednesday was over an hour and a half late. The delay was caused by an obstruction on the line between…
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Singleton Argus · Saturday 14 May 1898 · page 2
A peculiar accident occurred on Wednesday At Bridgman to a young named Edward Ball. He was in the act of unyoking a team of bullocks, when one of the animals…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Football Accident
Singleton Argus · Saturday 14 May 1898 · page 2
Just by way of reminding folk that the football season has commenced, it may be mentioned that already a local casualty has to be chronicled. While a hid named F…
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Singleton Argus · Saturday 14 May 1898 · page 2
On Tuesday night last, a four-year-old daughter of Mr Samuel Brookor, of Johnstreet, was severely burned on one sido of the body. It seems the child was playing…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 May 1898 · page 5
During the progress of unloading metal from the steamer Dunmore, this morning, a man named Martin Matterson, at work in the hold, was struck by a basket of blue metal, receiving injuries to the…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 18 May 1898 · page 2
AN accident of a painful and serious nature befell Mr. Kenneth M'Kenzie on Tuesday morning. It appears that he was knocked down by a dray…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Frightful Accident at Singleton. a Woman Almost Burned to Death. Singleton
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 May 1898 · page 5
One of the most frightful accidents it has been out lot to record occured here last evening about a quarter past nine. At the time named Mrs. Ohmeen, wife of Mr. A. Ohmsen, accountant at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Poetry. the Syllable That Was Drowned
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 May 1898 · page 4
They met in the gay, crowded [?] When the fiddle and flute and [?] Gave forth a deliciously mellow, A beautiful, [?] tune…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 May 1898 · page 3
An adjourned inquest respecting the death of a married woman named Catherine Hollerman, who fell from a tram while in motion, was resumed and concluded to-day. Deceased sustained a fractured…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Circus Accident. [By Telegraph] Sydney
Singleton Argus · Thursday 19 May 1898 · page 2
AT Gulgong last night an audience at a circus was startled by an accident which might have bad serious results. A large portion of the sitting…
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Singleton Argus · Thursday 19 May 1898 · page 2
The old adage that "misfortunes do not come singly" was exemplified this week in the case of the family of Mr Arthur Ohmsen, of Singleton. It was only a few…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 May 1898 · page 3
A young man named Edward Turner, was ploughing at Cooloominbah when the horses bolted, knocked him down, and trampled over him, severely injuring his face. He is also thought to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Found Drowned. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
Singleton Argus · Saturday 21 May 1898 · page 2
THE body of a middle-aged man was washed ashore at Botany beach to-day. It was greatly decomposed and evidently had been in the water for a…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 21 May 1898 · page 5
Edward Skyrne, a resident of Guildford, met with a serious accident whilst driving in the Parramatta Road to-day. The horse look fright at a herd of swine and bolted. The trap was brought into…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Frightful Burning Accident at Singleton
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 May 1898 · page 2
One of the most frightful accidents it bas been our lot to record occurred at Singleton on Tuesday evening about a quarter past nine, o'clock, Mrs. Ohmsen, wife of Mr. A. Ohmsen, accountant at…
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Singleton Argus · Saturday 21 May 1898 · page 2
We learn from Mr S. Brookor that his little daughter, who met with severe injuries last week through her clothes catching fire, is much more severely burned…
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Singleton Argus · Saturday 21 May 1898 · page 2
The friends of Mrs George Moore, of Palmer's Island, Clarence River, and recently of Bulga, will regret to hear that she met with an accident by being thrown…
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