Fatality at Harrington Boy Crushed by Boulder
A shocking accident occurred at Harring-ton training wall on Monday last. A young lad named Edward Lennox [?] only son of Mr. and Mrs. E.L. [?] and…
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Fatal Accident at Cessnock
A man whose identity has not been established was knocked down by a passenger train on the Aberdare railway yesterday afternoon, and he died a few minutes after…
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James Bond, aged 31, a miner, [?] to Sydney Hospital on Tuesday suffering from terrible injuries as the result of falling down…
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The district coroner, Mr. G. Brown, held and inquest at the Cessnock Courthouse on Wednesday concerning the death of Leonard Thomas Redgrove, 5½ years of age, who was…
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The police have ascertained that the man who ws killed on the railway near Cessnock, on Thursday afternoon. was Christopher Keefe, who resided at Singleton. He leaves…
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Mr. A. Vercoe, of Bolwarra, writes as follows:—"I am sending a few particulars in connection with the death of one of my cows, which may be of interest to your…
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A shocking accident occurred at Harrington training wall on Monday last. A young lad named Edward Lennox Rowling, only son or Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Rowling, and…
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Edwin Rowling, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Rowling, of the Commercial Bank, Wingham, was accidentally killed at Harrington on Monday…
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A man named John Middleton, 64 years of age, met with a serious accident at Baker's brickworks, East Maitland, to-day, through a skip giving way and crushing…
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Two boys Laurence Porter (15), of Watson-street, Bondi, and Bert Pottie, of Salisbury-street. Waverley, were seriously injured on Sunday afternoon through…
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A sad fatal accident occurred at Cessnock on Thursday afternoon, when Christopher Keefe, aged 30, a labourer from Singleton, was killed by a train…
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A sulky accident occurred near Broke on Sunday, in which Arthur Burgess, 19 years of ago was rather severely injured Burgess, with two companions, was driving on narrow…
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Two boys, Laurence Porter (15), of Watson-street, Bondi, and Bert Pottie, of Salisbury-street, Waverley, were seriously injured on Sunday afternoon…
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The adjourned Inquest concerning the death of Christopher Keefe, who died In Cessnock Hospital on April 26, as the re-sult of injuries received on the Aberdare…
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We regret to record two accidents which happened locally. The first one occurred about 5 p.m. on Thursday of last week, the unfortunate…
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A son of Mr. S. Cruickshank, of Cessnock, 9 years of age, was thrown from a horse on the main roa near Bellbird, on Sunday evening and he received concussion of the…
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Following on, a small explosion in an outhouse at North Sydney, Mrs Florrie Minahan, aged 45, was found by her husband with her clothes in flames and…
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Whillat returning from the funeral of the late driver W. F. Bong. at Seaham. on Wednesday afternoon, Mr. E. Holmes, of "Gowan Brae" Bolwarra. met with a…
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While travelling at a medium pace near Trevallyn, on the Gresford road, the steering gear of Barling's car gave way and the car, containing five…
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Some ten years ago a well-known Sydney policeman met with a dynamite accident. Part of his jaw was seriously fractured—nearly all the…
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