The Fatality at Mt. Pleasant
The Deputy Coroner (Mr. W. H. Rees) held an inquest on Wednesday afternoon as to the fatality to Ernest Goodall Stafford, in the Mount…
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Sad Shooting Fatality
A tragic shooting accident occurred on Friday afternoon of last week, when a young man named George Cook, a son of Mr. Russell Cook, of…
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At a meeting in Newcastle, last week, of delegates to the Conference which has in hand the agitation for the increase of the benefits, the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Serious Accidents
Mr. John Booth, a horse-driver in the employ of Mr. J. M'Sweeney, met with a serious accident at the hoppers on Monday morning last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sulky Accident
Shortly after dusk on Thursday evening last an accident occurred on the road leading from Mr. J. T. Price's residence above the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hand Injured
Another employee at the Electrolytic works, named Neave, had his hand badly crushed by getting it entangled in the works of the sampling mill…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Chapter of Accidents. Gored by a Cow
A little girl, the daughter of Mr. P. Sloan, was attacked by a cow in Kembla-street on Tuesday. The animal tossed the child heavily against a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Buggy Accident
Whilst, returning home via Jamberoo from Robertson on Sunday evening last, Mr. Chas. Ameera Box, of Albion Park, met with a nasty…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bumped by a Train. Seaman Meets with Accident
On Monday night a seaman named Joseph Brennan met with a painful accident on Bellambie Coal Company's tram line. It appears that Brennan,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shocking Fatality at Garden Hill Child Burned to Death
The morning at about 8 o'clock, Mrs. W. David, of Garden Hill, was in the back yard attending to some household duties when she heard…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Fatality. Man Washed off Port Kembla Breakwater. And Drowned in Racing Sea Body not yet Recovered. Narrow Escape of his Companion
At about 8 o'clock last night Mr M'Masters, foreman of the gold and silver refinery in connection with the Electrolytic Company's works at Port…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Port Kembia Drowning Fatality. Body not yet Recovered
Up to the time of going to press the body of Mr. M'Masters, who was washed off the breakwater at Port Kembla on Monday night last, had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners' Accident Fund. a Peculiar Case
A case of more than ordinary interest has occupied the attention of the miners' accident fund members for some weeks past. Four months ago, James…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Sad Fatality
An inquest was held in Bulli on Thursday by the Deputy Coroner, Mr. W. Rees, as to the death in the South Bulli mine on previous day…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Port Kembla Fatality. Recovery of the Body
On Saturday last the body of the late C. F. M'Masters, who met his death on the 27th ultimo by being washed off the eastern breakwater,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miner Injured. Eye Seriously Injured
At the Bellambi mine on Tuesday afternoon a miner, George Merrill, had his left eye practically distroyed, and the right eve- much injured. He…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Painful Accident
Ernest Timbs, son of Mt. David Timbs, of Mount Terry, received painful injuries on Monday through, being cut in the back with a pair of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Schoolboy Drowned
On Friday afternoon last Raymond Adrian Blackstone, who had been living as a boarder at the Camden School, whilst swimming with two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queer Accident. Doctors Baffled
The very remarkable story of a miner's death caused by a splinter of rock so small that it could not be found subsequently was told (says…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accident to a Wheeler
Olive Irwin, son of Mr. T. Irwin, who started wheeling in Keira mine yesterday morning some time after commencing. It appears that Irwin's…
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