Two Fatal Railway Accidents in Victoria
THE Melbourne Daily Telegraph, reports that as the 9.45 train from Brighton arrived alongside the platform at the Hobson's Bay station on Sunday night,…
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Accidents, 1881
214 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 11
Accident
YESTERDAY morning a boy named Hervey was removed to Dr. Knaggs surgery, suffering from severe injuries to his knee cap, the result of falling from a high…
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THE result of the magisterial inquiry held by Dr. Nash, J.P., into the cause of death of a child named Margaret Summerville, who fell into a tank at Minmi, resulted…
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GOULBURN, Friday.—Railway-guard Beck was run over by an engine this morning at Gunning. His leg was frightfully crushed. It is reported that the…
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ON Saturday last, on the occasion of the Hunter River Amateur Turf Club Races, West Maitland, several mishaps occurred which might have ended fatally. In the…
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AN old resident of Wallsend, named Matthew Johnson, had his arm badly broken a little below the shoulder joint through falling before the wheel of his…
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SIR,—Will you kindly insert the following particulars with reference to the collision between the ketches Turtle and Agnes, the former of which I was master of [?] On Sunday…
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AN accident took place recently by which the wife of a selector at Groonbridge Swamp, near Tenterfield, named Wheeler, sustained injuries of a serious nature…
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ABOUT 8 p.m. yesterday a serious horse accident occurred in Hunter-street, nearly opposite the Criterion Hotel. As Dr. John Harris was cantering on horseback,…
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WE regret having to record the death of Mr. John Nally, of Miller's Forest, who was so severely hurt by being thrown from his horse in Hunter-street, on Friday…
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MARRIWA, Saturday.—Arthur Nicholls, of Mudgee, was thrown from his horse on Monday last. The horse he was riding reared up and fell backwards, throwing…
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ON Monday afternoon a child named John Nesittie, aged twelve years and four months, son of Mr. George Nesittie master of the steamer Magic, met with an all but…
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WE are informed that yesterday afternoon a young man named H. A. Baglee, a painter, met with a painful mishap whilst lifting a case of glass. The contents…
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ON Wednesday last (says the Bathurst Free Press), a little boy named Kemp, hall, who was attending the Duramana Public School, while playing in the road…
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THE City Coroner (Mr. H. Shiell, J.P.) held inquests on Tuesday morning at the Observer, Tavern, George-street, Sydney, upon the bodies of John Shea and John…
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THE Dubbo Dispatch of the 19th instant gives the following details of the gun accident to Mr. Thornton and the drowning of that young gentleman:—…
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AFTER dark on Thursday night a cart belonging to Mr. Moore, cordial manufacturer, came into contact with another vehicle in the vicinity of the Borehole…
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YESTERDAY at noon a fortunate rescue from drowning took place off the steamboat wharf stairs. Whilst Mr. Thomas King, of Hurter-street, was out in a boat,…
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A MOST unfortunate accident happened to one of the prisoners in the Armidale gaol (says the Express) one day in the early part of this week. Under the charge of a…
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AT the Court House yesterday morning a peculiar collision occurred between two members of a crowd which bad congregated outside the local ball of justice…
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