Mining Accidents
REMARKABLE CASE OF SUDDEN DEATH IN A COAL PIT.— About eight o'clock on Friday morning, a man named John Mont, employed as a miner at the Old Doe…
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Accidents, 1863
13 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers
Reveries. [Original.] Accidents. Wednesday morning
THE narrow escape of a child from the hoofs of a passing horse, attracted my attention as I sat this morning at my favourite window, and scarcely had I time to "think thanks" on…
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Shortly before eleven o'clock, on Monday, morning, an explosion of fire-damp took place at the Edmunds Main Colliery, near Barnsley, which, it is to be feared, has been attended with…
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An accident, happily unattended with any serious consequences, occurred on Wednesday evening, to the Yarra Yarra steamer, on ber voyage from Brisbane to Sydney. When off…
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ACCIDENT. — At Haughton-le-Spring, while John Bradley, of Hunter House Pit, was preparing shots for blasting on Monday, be accidentally set fire to the whole of…
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An appalling colliery accident that has been attended with the loss of three lives, has occurred near Wednesbury, in Staffordshire. Not far from the line of the Great Western Railway, and about half-a-mile from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News of the Day. Inquest on a Man Found Drowned in the Hunter
On Sunday evening last, an inquest was held by the District Coroner, Dr. Knaggs, on a man ascertained to be James Manwaring Eyrest, whose body was discovered floating in the Hunter…
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AND SUICIDE.—The S. A. Advertiser of 12th instant says:—It is our painful duty to have to record the death of two persons, which took place on Tuesday under most…
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INTELLIGENCE reached us, on going to press, of a frightful accident which occurred to a labouring man yesterday, on the Miami Coal Company's line of railway at Hexham. It…
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THE Otago Daily Time of July 6, gives a particular narrative of fatal steamboat collision which occurred in the neighbourhood of Port Chalmers, on the night of Saturday, the 4th…
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We regret to state that an accident, fatal in its consequences, occurred on Monday afternoon to Mr. Frederick Smith, a storekeeper, in Hunter-street. The deceased, it appears, had been…
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COLLIERY.—Four SINKERS KILLED.—A most dreadful accident occurred at Black Boy Colliery, on Saturday noon, by which four of Mr. Coulson's most skilful and…
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Latest was held yesterday afternoon at the Sports. [?] Waratah, before the district coroner, Dr. [?]n view of the [?]dy of an infant child, aged one [?] seven months, named James Dwyer, the son of…
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