Peak Hill Fatality. a Man Falls Down an Abandoned Shaft
On Friday morning, the friends of Mr. James Bushell, not having seen him for the last couple of days, and knowing that he had been drinking,…
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Accidents, 1899
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Fatal Accidents. at Peak Bill
FROM the Peak Hill Times we learn that the body of a man named James Bushell, was, on Friday, found at the bottom of an old shaft 60 feet deep on…
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During the past week, Mr. J. M. Job, who was so badly injured at the time poor Findlay Smith was killed, has been in a most critical condition…
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A man named McCr[?]die was run over by a tram at Elizabeth-street, [?] had both legs cut off…
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A very painful sensation occurred here in connection with a young man named George McGee, part proprietor of the Bobalah billiard room. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Sad Drowning Fatality at Canowindra. Two Young Girls Drowned Canowindra, Friday. (By Wire.)
Yesterday afternoon two daughters of Mr. James Boardman, Wattagumben, near Canowindra, aged 8 and 16 years, went to a dam with a horse and slide for…
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A Condobolin correspondent writes: —A peculiar and painful accident took place in the main street on Tuesday. A man named Thomas Hannon,…
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Mr. Robert Turnbull, the engineer of the Parkes waterworks, met with a very painful accident the other day. Mr. Turnbull was at the reservoir…
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A sad and fatal accident happened at the Gibraltar mine at 10 o'clock on Saturday night last, by which a young man named Robert Pamment…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Fatal Accident. Thoughtless Manslaughter. the Inquest.-- Friday's Proceedings and Verdict
At 11 a.m. on Friday Mr. Coroner Driffield opened air adjourned inquiry in the local Police Court as to how and by what means one Thomas Hannah (or…
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A FRIGHTFUL accident, terminating fatally, befel a shearer named Thomas Cannon, of Junee, a man about 50 years of age, about 1 o'clock on…
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The body of a man was found dead in Long Bay this morning and is identified as Robert William Reid, who has frequently appeared as a…
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We are sorry to have to chronicle a severe accident which befel Mr D. Scott, the respected squire of Mowabla, one day last week. It appears that he was riding round…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Latest Telegrams. SYDNEY, Tuesday. Mining Accident
At Croydon, Queensland, the winding rope broke, and a cage containing two men. Steven Ayles and Jerry Close, tell down a shaft 300ft. Both…
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THE Minister for Mines has three new Bills concerned with mining in hand. The one which more particularly appliers to this old is the…
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Nature never intended Berlin for anything but a provincial town. It has been made into the capital of a great Empire deliberately of malice aforethought. It has, in fact, been…
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AN accident occurred at Safala recently by which an elderly man named John Matter, was killed (says the Bathurst Free Press) He was…
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A terrible accident occurred on the railway line between Ashfield and Croydon this morning. Two fetlers named Joins. Flanaghan and Maurice…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Possible Collision of the Earth with a Comet
The prediction has been made on many occasions that the end of the world would be brought about by its collision with a comet. And the exact…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shocking Fatalities in the Harbour. Disaster to Two Picnic Parties. Eight Persons Drowned
THE pleasure of the holiday were marred by two shocking boating fatalities which occurred on the me lining of Boxing-day, resulting in the drowning of seven young women and one young…
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