Fatal Accident at the Borehole
A SAD and fatal accident happened yesterday morning to a miner named John Donn, residing at Hamilton, and working in the Hamilton pit. It appears that he was…
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Accidents, 1883
363 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 19
TELEGRAMS. Accidents and Offences
SYDNEY, Monday.—At the inquest on the body of William Falconer, killed on the tramway, on Friday, a verdict of accidental death was returned…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Charles Luxom, a navvy, while attempting to get on a ballast train in motion at Young, missed his footing and fell. Several waggons passed…
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A VERY melancholy case of accidental poisoning occurred at the residence of Mr. Gould, Boundary Road, Emerald Hill, on Saturday night, or…
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Theresa Carew, a nurse girl, has been committed for trial for concealment of birth. The man found drowned has been identified as Samuel Cade, waiter at the…
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A man named John A. R. Christopher Nelson, a Swede, while excavating for the approaches to the new bridge over Coombing Creek,…
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ON Thursday morning, Miss Ada Robertson, sixteen years of age, residing in Upper William-street, north, Sydney, was engaged in the kitchen,…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A serious railway collision with two passenger trains has occurred on a bridge near Brisbane. One engine was hurled over the bridge, and two…
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Two painful accidents occurred in Newcastle yesterday. George Brown, a wharf labourer, was admitted during the morning, to Dr. Knaggs' surgery, suffering from…
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A YOUNG fellow named Bain, son of Mr. Wm. Bain, near New Tunnel points, received a serious injury on Sunday afternoon, which still places his life in imminent danger…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A man named Richard Kearns has died in Parramatta from the effects of a fight with a man named Henry Murdock…
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AN inquest was held on Friday at Waiton’s Hotel, Prospect, concerning the death of Richard Kearnes, who was found in a stable adjoining the hotel in a precarious…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—A miner named Henry Brown, 24 years of age, was killed at the North Band and Barton mine, Ballarat, yesterday. He…
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ADELAIDE, Taturday.—A fatal accident occurred this morning, at Bowden. A young man named George Charles Spencer, while attending to…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Constable Gilmore was set upon by a mob of larrikins at the corner of Foveaux and Elizabeth-streets, and severely injured by stones and palings…
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A COLLISION, almost resulting in serious consequences, occurred in the harbour yesterday morning. It appears that the steamers Karaweera (Captain Blown, 928…
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ON Tuesday afternoon last (say the Goulburn Herald) a party of four young girls were enjoying themselves at a picnic in a paddock not far from Marsden's Bridge, on…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Two men have been committed for trial at Hay for cutting the throat of the racehorse Terminus. W. Gibbs, shipping clerk to Messrs…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A girl, named Alice Crook, aged six, fell into the water closet at the Public School, Redfern, and was drowned. At the inquest on the body, the…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Daniel Smith was sentenced to a penalty of £10, or a fortnight, for selling indecent prints in the Domain on Sunday…
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