Railway Accident
While engaged in shunting operations at Kiama, an employee named Robert Jordan fell under the wheels of a truck, one leg being severed from…
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Cablegrams. London, Thursday. Railway Fatality
A train at Ontario fell over an embankment into a creek, six persons being killed, and 140 injured…
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An accident, attended with fatal re-results, occurred at Wee Waa sleeper depot on Saturday week. A man named E. Poulter, whilst in the act…
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A miner named John Johnson, working at Charters Towers in the deep level, fell a distance of a thousand feet, and was instanteneously…
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On Sunday week [?]ortunate accident happened in wa[?] to a young man named Robert Davison, at Yetman. It [?]ears that…
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Charles Laxton, a fireman employed in the locomotive department at Werris, Creek was found last week dead between the rails near the engine shed his head being…
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A porter named Mayo was killed in an acetylene gas generator at Penrith to-day, the unfortunate man's body being shockingly mutilated by the…
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A sad drowning accident occurred in the Murrumbidgee River, between Lochhart and Narrandera, on Saturday night. Three young women were…
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Dear. Sir,—In Wednesday's issue of the CHRONICLE is an acconnt of the recent shooting accident at Black Mountain. The report states that…
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Another shooting mishap is reported in this district says the Armidale CHRONICLE. On Sunday last during the absence of his parents a six year old lad…
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A very sad death resulted from burning on Friday. A twelve-year-old girl named Elizabeth Shanley, the daughter of a boundary rider on…
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Four men named Rundall, Heermingway, And [?] and Wald were fishing outside Newcastle on Friday morning when a gale capsized their boat…
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MR. J. M'LEOD was the victim of a nasty dent at Ben Lomond on Sunday afternoon last. It appears the horse he was riding suddenly fell, and turning over severely crushed its rider against the…
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A FEW days back Constable H. Sully, late of this town, but now of Yass, met with an accident curiously 'similar to the one which befel his younger brother (John) on the…
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Four men were drowned off Plummerton, New Zealand, through a boat capsizing…
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A boating fatality occurred at Newcastle on Monday morning, resulting in the loss of two lives. It appears that four men--James Anderson, Louis…
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A youth named John Perry was accidentally shot dead by a companion at Henty, Thasmania…
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ON Monday evening, last as Mr. James Lorkin, of Red Range, was returning from the Dundco races of Bald Nob, he came in collision with a fence and was thrown from his horse. He sustained a…
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John M'Larie; of the Forestry Department, was killed' by a buggy. accidental Gilgandra on Monday,…
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A SHOCKING accident took place yesterday on the railway line on the Girilambone side of Wilga tank. When the engine was about a mile from the…
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