Fatal Mining Accident
A MINER named James Cullen, an old resident of Redan, who was at one time employed on the railway lines, was killed on Saturday in the Young Band Extended…
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Accidents, 1883
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Accidents and Offences
SYDNEY, Saturday.—A poor old vagrant named William Nelson, 61 years, died in his cell, at Parramatta, yesterday. A man named Bernard Monaghan has…
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WINGHAM, Monday.—A frightful accident occurred yesterday to one of our oldest and most residents, Mr. Thomas Gibson, sen., who, with his wife and…
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OTAGO, Saturday.—A telegram states that a horrible accident occurred on Friday on the Thames, N Z. A man was boiling tar in the kitchen of…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A labourer named Alfred Murphy has been killed whilst blastting at the waterworks, Penrith. Seven persons have been fined for…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday—A railway collision has occurred at Newmarket, near Melbourne. Twenty-one passengers were injured, and many of them taken to the…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Constable Curry has been stabbed in the knee with a butcher's knife, while arresting a slaughterman at the Glebe. George Anderson, of the Destitute Children's…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—John Davis, of Abercrombie-street, has committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. A man named James Dwyer has been…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The man found hanging from the rocks at Crogee has not been identified. Samuel Norton has been accidentally shot…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A Chinaman has been murdered by blacks, near Russell River. The skeleton of the body found recently…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A woman, name unknown, but respectably dressed, was rescued from drowning in the harbour to-day. She was unable to account as to how she got into the water…
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A DREADFUL boiler explosion took place at Shay and Moon's Steam Sawmills, situated in East Maitland, yesterday morning. It appears the men were just about starting…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—An extensive fire took place at Mills' produce stores, Regent-street, Redfern, adjoining Hudson Bros.' A portion of the latter's premises took fire…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A horrible accident occurred on the Homebush to Waratah railway works, yesterday. Some navvies were engaged blasting a rock near Ryde,…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A fire broke out in a house at South Yarra yesterday, which ended most tragically. The place was occupied by a squatter, Mr. Nash, of…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A man named Thomas Bourke was crossing Oxford-street yesterday, when he was knocked down by a passing tram motor, and seriously injured…
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ON Monday last, an accident of a somewhat serious nature took place in the Railway Yard, Blane-street. It appears that an employee by name Alfred Brown, was…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—An unfortunate accident happened to Elias Laycock, the sculler, at his residence, Shark Island, to-day. He was jumping from one rock to another, when he fell and fractured one of his…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A verdict of accidental death was returned yesterday at the inquest on the man who was killed by the blasting accident on the Homebush-Waratah railway line, at Ryde…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—To-day a number of men were engaged in dismantling the premises of the late Mr. W. H. Rocke, in Collins-street, when about 40ft of roofing,…
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