Collision at Sea. Twenty-seven Lives Lost. London
The story of another terrible marine disaster is to hand from the Pacific coast. The steamer Walla Walla, from San Francisco to Puget Sound, with 36 first…
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A Shooting Accident
On Monday, at Mount Kembla, a rather peculiar shooting accident happened, whereby a woman named Mrs Jenkins narrowly escaped losing her life. It appears that a…
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Captain Edie, the superintendent of the Department of Navigation, has received the following telegram from the lighthouse keeper at Warden Head, Ulladulla:—…
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A youth named Robert Howland had a miraculous escape from being drowned on Monday evening while bathing in the men's baths. It appears that the lad, who…
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Yesterday afternoon Mr. Ted O'Neil, an employee of the Coastal Farmers' Co-operative Co., fell off a load of chaff, thereby breaking a couple of ribs…
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A middle-aged man named Charles Wilkinson, of Balgownie, had one of his feet split up the instep and one toe taken off by a fall of coal in Mount Pleasant…
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On Monday last an accident of a serious nature occurred at Mt. Pleasant mine. A man named Frank Weeks had just finished charging a hole to blash…
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A shooting accident occurred at Berry on Wednesday morning last Master Jack Cookerill, aged 12, son of Mr. J. W. Cockerill, went into the sale yards with a…
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Mr. W. Poach, of Wollongong, met with a very painful accident last Saturday at the Dapto Smelting Works. The unfortunate man, who is employed as oiler of the machinery, got caught in the belt, which…
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Yesterday morning a sad fatality occurred at Mount Pleasant mine, by which a lad named John Barker, 18 years of age, and son of Mr. William Barker,…
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An inquest, touching the death of the lad, John Barker, the seventeen-year old son of Mr. William Barker, of Balgownie, who was killed the previous…
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On Wednesday, Colonel Chisholm, P.M, in the absence of the Coroner (Mr. C. C. Russell), held an inquest as to the death of John Frederick Barker…
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Of the 33 wagons derailed an the Southern Coal Co.'s line lately, thirteen were badly broken, two large ones valued at £105 each, and eleven small…
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A collision occurred at the Sydney Heads early on Wednesday morning between the pilot steamer Captain Cook and the three-masted Norwegian steamer…
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Yesterday morning, two lads, Bert. Harrigan and R Lewis, in the employ of the Illawarra Cycle Works, met with an accident which might have proved…
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"Bert" Harrigan, the well-known young cyclist employed at the Wollongong Cycle Works nearly succeeded on Saturday morning in putting a very…
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An action was brought before Judge Simpson at the Sydney Court on Friday by George Carson Hunter, coalminer, aged 56, against Thomas Saywell,…
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Late on Monday afternoon quite a gloom was cast over the town when it became known that Dan Hickey, aged 15 years, son of Mr. Timothy Hickey,…
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A man employed in the pit at Pendle-bury'a brickworks, Woonona, met with a serious accident on Wednesday last. It appears that the unfortunate man was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drowning Fatality at Bega
A SAD drowning accident occurred at Bega on Sunday last. Ernest Yeoman, hairdresser, went to the river to bathe, in company with Huge Huglies. Neither could,…
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