TELEGRAMS. Serious Coach Accident
RAYMOND TERRACE, Tuesday.—The mail coach from Raymond Terrace to Port Stephens, with five passengers in it, upset yesterday, and the occupants were much…
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Accidents, 1884
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Frightful Tramway Accident. a Child Mutilated and Killed
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—George Tunbridge, a child three years of age, was knocked down by a Botany tram yesterday and killed. The poor little fellow was…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A labourer named Charles Williams has been killed by a passing train, while working at Eveleigh bridge…
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A SHOCKING accident occurred on Tuesday afternoon, on the railway at Eveleigh, near Redfern, which resulted in the immediate death of a man named Charles Williams,…
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A YOUNG man, named Peter Irvine, met with a painful accident yesterday morning. He is employed by Messrs. John Ash and Sons, and was shifting a log from a truck…
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BRISBANE, Saturday.—A boy named Strape was drowned in Townsville yesterday while bathing in Ross Creek. MELBOURNE, Saturday.—A man named…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—A quantity of dynamite in a blacksmith's shop in the Unity mine, Inglewood, suddenly exploded and killed almost instantly a man…
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THE periodical bunch of coroner's inquests has once more come about. Only on Saturday, last Mr. Chapman, J.P., District Coroner, held an inquiry touching the death…
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YOUNG, Monday.—Cobb's coach from Young to Murrumburrah upset on Saturday, and ten passengers were injured…
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A SEAMAN named Jansen was working on board the Bothwell Castle yesterday, when, by some means or other, he fell across a beam. He was taken to Dr. Morgan, who…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—At the inquest on the bodies of the three children burnt to death at Cootsmandra, the verdict was "accidental death," the cause of the fire…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The body of a man, name unknown, has been found drowned in the harbour…
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LAST night a man named Voinans, cook aboard the steam tug Challenger, fell down the hold, and sustained severe injuries to his skull. He was taken to the Hospital, and attended to by Dr. Morgan. Over…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—James Rice, employed at Messrs. Hudson Bros., was jammed to-day between the buffers of two railway waggons and killed. James…
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LONDON, Thursday.—News has been received of an apalling railway accident which occurred last night between Manchester and Sheffield to the express train. The…
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MINMI, Friday.—A man named M'Intyre was accidentally injured in the pit to-day, by a fall of stone from the roof between the props. On examination by Dr. Ody it…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A cab driver, named Field, was riding a horse at Camperdown yesterday, when he collided with a loaded cart. The man and the horse were both…
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BRISBANE, Saturday.—The steamer Burnett, timber laden, collided with the Taldora in the Bundaberg River this morning. No one was injured, but the Burnett was cut…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—Joseph Atcheson, a quarryman, was working at the pottery works, Surry Hills, this morning, in a deep hole, when a drayman, unaware of his…
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A DREADFUL accident happened in Sydney to a little boy, son of Mrs. Clarke, a widow. at Redfern. On Monday, during the temporary absence of Mrs. Clarke, the boy got…
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