Fatal Accident
WE are informed that a man was killed by a fall of coal at the Osborne Wallsend Coal Company's mine, at Wollongong, yesterday. The Examiner of Coal Fields leaves for…
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Accidents, 1879
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Collision in Hunter-street
YESTERDAY a collision took place between two vehicles in Hunter-street, which narrowly escaped being attended with serious consequences. It appears that the horse (in a…
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TWO accidents happened yesterday afternoon at the wharf, which narrowly escaped being attended with fatal consequences. In the first, a drunken sailor was coming down the…
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WE I'llawarra Mercury regret having to record that a fatal accident occurred in the Mount Keira Colliery, on Wednesday forenoon last, the unfortunate man who lost his…
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WE very much regret to state that Mr. H. Pinchin, who was just recovering from the effects of a broken leg, sustained through a buggy accident, had yesterday the misfortune…
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AN inquest was held on Tuesday forenoon last, at the Commercial Hotel (says) the Illawarra Mercury), touching the death of Joseph Sale, who was killed in…
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A SAD accident, which resulted in the drowning of two men (says the S. A. Advertiser of May 19), took place in the Port River, on Saturday afternoon,…
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A FRIGHTFUL accident occurred at Sandhurst on 25th May, in the Victoria Gold Mines claim, by which a miner named Andrew William Enstice lost his life. The deceased,…
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AN unfortunate surgical accident has occurred at the Kew Lunatic Asylum. A patient named Sinclair (reports the Argus) was suffering from a complaint for the relief of…
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ON Saturday night, Captain Nessity, of the steamer Mystery, met with a rather painful accident. He had brought his vessel alongside the barque W. C. Wentworth, and after…
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WITH reference to the late fatal accident on the G. N. W. Railway, at the Gap near the Werris Creek junction, our Tamworth correspondent under date writes…
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A YOUNG man named James Hale, in the employ of Messrs. Moyes and Donald, at their foundry in King and Brown Streets, met with a very painful accident yesterday…
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INTELLIGENCE reached Newcastle late last night of a sad and fatal accident having befallen a young man named Patterson, between 5 and 6 o'clock in the evening, on the…
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KADINA, May 29.—A serious accident occurred at the Kurilla mine at 9 o'clock this morning by the ground fa[?]ing away at the thirty-fathom level in the…
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AN inquest was held yesterday morning, by the District Coroner (C. B. Ranclaud, Esq.), and a jury of twelve, at Mr. Luke Smith's Commercial Hotel, touching the death of a…
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YESTERDAY forenoon, an accident took place in Blane-street, which resulted in a horse, the property of Mr. Kidd, of Darby-street, being killed almost instantaneously, and a…
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THE District Coroner (C. B. Rancland, Esq.) held an inquest yesterday morning, at the Naval Brigade Hotel, into the cause of the death of a man named John Menzies, whose…
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A MINER named Welter Bailey had his thigh broken on Wednesday morning about half-past ten whilst following his occupation in the A. A. Co.'s pit. He was engaged in…
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AN accident of rather an exciting nature occurred on Friday afternoon (the Stawell Chronicle reports) at the Great Southern Mine, Garden Gully. In the morning a new…
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A SHOCKING accident (says the Mercury) occurred on the Great Northern Road near Morpeth, on Wednesday forenoon last, which resulted in the death of a son of Mr. Henry…
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