Dreadful Accident
A DREADFUL accident occurred at the police barracks at Wilcannia, on Monday night, about 11 o'clock. Constable Connors was preparing to start with the gold escort in…
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Accidents, 1881
214 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 11
TELEGRAMS More Tramway Accidents
SYDNEY, Friday.—Another tramway accident has occurred. A man named Samuel Schumacker was driving a cart on the tramway, when the motor came into…
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ON Saturday a fine little fellow, aged about four years, son of Mr. W. H. Moxey, of Railway-street, fractured his left elbow joint, through falling off…
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ON Saturday, during a football match at East Maitland, between fifteen of the Newcastle F.B.C. and eighteen from East Maitland, a serious accident…
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ANOTHER fatal tramway accident (says the D. Telegraph) has to be recorded, the victim being a man named Samuel Schumacher, a native of Switzerland…
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LAST week a child, aged three years of Mr. W. H. Brown, of Spring Creek, was accidentally poisoned at Vegetable Creek. From the evidence adduced at the inquest…
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YESTERDAY a workman, named John Brown, employed at the Government Railway works, Honeysuckle Point, had the top of his left hand third finger nearly…
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AN inquest was held at Johnson's Exchange Hotel, yesterday afternoon, by the District Coroner (Mr. C. B. Ranclaud) and a jury of twelve, of which Mr. W…
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A SHOCKING fatal accident happened on Monday morning (says the Daily Telegraph) at Mrs. Paddison's Crown Ridge Hotel, on the Mudgee-road. Among…
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ON Saturday evening a serious collision took place off Shepherd's Hill between the steam colliers Duckenfield and Boomerang. The Duckenfield, belonging to…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—The inquest as to the cause of death of Samuel Schumacker was concluded yesterday, and after a retirement of eight hours the jury returned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence Collision Between Ducken-field and Boomerang. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—In looking over your report of this morning of the collision between the steamers Duckenfield and Boomerang, we beg to state the course was not altered…
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A MINER named Joseph Cameron, met with a serious accident through a fall of coal at the Greta B pit on Wednesday last. We have not learned how…
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ON Thursday, as the Kameruka, for Eden, was rounding the breakwater toward Belmore Basin, she refused to answer the helm, and in an instant was…
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THE number of human lives which are sacrificed in the mines every year in Victoria, and the absence there—to a large extent, at all events—of the…
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YESTERDAY morning a child named John Henry Davy, aged nineteen months, was found drowned in a tank behind his parents' residence, Hamilton Commonage. The…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A serious collision occurred last night off Fort Denison, between the steamer Hero, bound for Newcastle, and the steamer Herga,…
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MELBOURNE, 7.20 p.m.—A frightful railway accident occurred this morning on the Hobson's Bay Railway, near Melbourne station. A passenger train was…
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A MINER named John Boundy had hid foot badly bruises whilst working in the New Lambton pit on Monday night last. Dr. Hill has the case in hand.—A young…
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A collision of a serious nature took place in Sydney harbour during last night between the Union Steamship Company's Hero (s.) and the Coal Cliff Company's Herga (s.). The former…
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