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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1898

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Latest Up to Publication. Sydney, Monday, 4.31 p.m. Mining Fatality

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 March 1898 · page 3

A serious mining accident happened at the British Mine at Broken Hill this morning through a fall of sulphides, weighing between 30 and 40 tons. Three miners, named J…

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Fatal Mining Accident Four Miners Killed

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 2 March 1898 · page 2

The most serious mining accident since the South disaster occurred at the British Mine about 1 o'clock on Monday morning, when an immense…

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Drowning Fatality

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 March 1898 · page 2

Two boys, named Dell, were drowned in the river at Wilcannia on Saturday while bathing…

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Painful Accident

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 19 March 1898 · page 2

Miss B. Finley, daughter of Mr. F. G. Finley, Chairman of the Armidale Land Board, met with a serious accident last week (reports the…

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Fatal Accident at the Station. an Assistant Guard Killed

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 23 March 1898 · page 2

At about 8 o'clock on Monday day night at the local Railway Station an accident happened by which a porter named Jas. A. Newman lost his…

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Our Wires. (Per Grevillr's Telegram Company) Sydney. Thursday, 10.22 A.m. Accident Fund

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 25 March 1898 · page 3

Mr. Sydney Smith advocates the establishment of a permanent fund for the benefit of miners families in case of accident…

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Fatal Accident at the Railway Station. the Inquest. Second Day—Wednesday, MARCH 23

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 3

The inquest as to the cause of the death of James Alexander Newman was continued at the Armidale Railway Station on Wednesday, before Mr. J…

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Fatal Accident at Armidale. a Man Cut in Two

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 3

James A. Newman, a married mail, who formerly lived at Walcha Road, was attending to his duties at Armidale railway station as usual on…

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Fatal Lift Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 30 March 1898 · page 2

At the new Market Buildings in Sydney to day something want wrong with the workmen's lift while descending, and two men were thrown…

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Fatal Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 2 April 1898 · page 5

While pulling down a brick retort on the Colonial Sugar Co's works at Pyront to-day, the structure suddenlly collapsed. One man was killed…

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Bicycle Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 April 1898 · page 3

A young Italian, named T. Pauaretos, was killed whilst cycling in Centennial Park yesterday afternoon…

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Fatality at Hexham. a Railway Officer Killed

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 6 April 1898 · page 4

While engaged yarding horses at Hexham on Saturday morning, Mr. Robert Carpenter, the night officer at the railway station there was violently…

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Flood in America. a Town Destroyed. 200 Persons Drowned

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 6 April 1898 · page 2

The river Ohio burst its banks at Shawnee town, Illinois. The town was almost destroyed, 200 persons being drowned…

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Painful Accident

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 9 April 1898 · page 3

While getting poles in the bush a few days ago for use in the erection of Mr. W. Stringer's horse chaff cutting shed,…

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A Railway Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 13 April 1898 · page 2

The axle of one of the carriages of the train from Tam worth broke near Ryde last night. One of the broken ends struck the floor of the carriage…

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The Railway Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 15 April 1898 · page 3

It appears that the accident on Monday night is more serious than at first supposed. No less than three axles were broken, and the train crowd had a very narrow escape from a…

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Sad Drowning Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 16 April 1898 · page 4

It is our very painful duty to record the death by drowing, of Miss Ethel White, third daughter of Mr. F. R. White, of Booloomimba, which…

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Fatal Cab Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 16 April 1898 · page 6

The death of the elderly man John Alexnnder Garmack, who was knocked down and injured by a cabin Elizabeth-street, Sydney, on Monday night…

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Serious Accident in a Menagerie

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 16 April 1898 · page 7

The Pezon menagerie, which at the present moment is attending the fair on the Plate d' Italie, was the other night the scene of a struggle between…

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Sad Browning Fatality Near Armidale

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 April 1898 · page 2

THE death, by drowning, of Miss Ethel White, third daughter of Mr. F. R. White, of Booloomimba, which occurred on Thursday afternoon, is thus referred to by the Armidale Chronicle. Accompanied…

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