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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1884

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Sensational and Fatal Boat Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 February 1884 · page 4

ABOUT dusk, in Port Jackson, on Saturday, several gentlemen were sailing down the harbour in a boat, the party consisting of five in all, Mr. Tuttle the photographer…

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Serious Accident at Hamilton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 February 1884 · page 2

AN accident of rather a painful nature happened to a son of Mr. James Gaynor yesterday evening about 6 o'clock, at Hamilton. It appears that the little fellow who is…

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Fatal Accident. Coroner's Inquest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 February 1884 · page 2

AT 7.30 p.m. yesterday the District Coroner (Mr. C. B. Ranclaud) held an inquest at Scott's Albion Hotel, touching the death of a youth named Thomas Milton, who had…

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Another Coach Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 February 1884 · page 2

HILLSTON, Thursday.—Cobb's coach, between Gunbar and Hillston, capsized yesterday, when three passengers were injured…

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The Coach Accident near Queanbeyan

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 February 1884 · page 2

QUEANBEYAN, Thursday.—The victims of the late coach accident at Queanbeyan are recovering except young Walsh, whose case is considered hopeless…

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Terrible Colliery Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 March 1884 · page 7

A terrible accident occurred on January 16th at Garment Colliery, Cwmaman, a small village about twenty miles from Swanson. Farly in the morning nine men…

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Telegrams. a Singular Fatal Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 March 1884 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—A woman named Margaret Bennett, aged twenty-four, has been killed at her residence, Paddington, by a quantity of heavy stones from an adjoining…

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Serious Accident at West Maitland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 March 1884 · page 4

WEST MAITLAND, Friday.—At the dinner hour yesterday, whilst he was sitting under a band in a tank at the Oakhampton Reservoir, two tons of earth fell on Patrick Ryan,…

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Fatal Accident at Cootamundra

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 March 1884 · page 2

COOTAMUNDRA, Saturday.—A man was killed on Thursday night while engaged in taking down the tents of Chiarini's circus. A large pole fell on his head. The…

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Accident at Glen Innes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 March 1884 · page 2

GLEN INNES, Monday.—Gallagher, Cobb and Co.'s local agent at Glen Innes, was thrown from a horse yesterday, and is suffering from a concussion of the brain…

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The Queanboyan Coach Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 March 1884 · page 2

QUEANBEYAN, Monday.—Young Walsh died at Queanbeyan on Saturday from the effects of the late coach accident…

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Fatal Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 March 1884 · page 4

A DREADFUL accident is recorder by the Tamworth Independent to have occurred to Mr. James Condon, a settler on Dungowan Creek, some time during the…

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Curious Railway Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 March 1884 · page 4

A PECULIAR railway accident occurred on Friday night near Gladstone (S.A.). A special train with trucks of wheat drawn by a Yankee engine was coming…

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Horrible Railway Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 March 1884 · page 4

THE Adelaide correspondent of the Melbourne Telegraph sends the following particulars of a terrible accident which occurred on the Laura railway,…

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Accident to the City of Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 March 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The steamer City of Brisbane when off Bird Island came to sudden grief through her piston-rod breaking and disabling her starboard paddle…

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Another Coach Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 March 1884 · page 2

MUDGEE, Wednesday.—The coach between Capertee and Mudgee capsized yesterday, and the driver was seriously hurt…

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Deaths from Drowning

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 March 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The body of a man has been found floating in the harbour. GUNDAGAI, Thursday.—Mr. M'Lennan a railway sub-contractor, has been drowned…

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Accident to S.s. City of Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 March 1884 · page 4

A good deal of excitement was occasioned on Monday morning at Sydney, says the S. D. Telegraph, owing to the non-arrival of the Newcastle Steamship Company's steamer City of Brisbane…

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A Terrible Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 March 1884 · page 3

MELBOURNE , Saturday.—John Shaw fill down a shaft in Clifton on Wednesday, and had both his thighs fractured. He died yesterday. He has left a wife and…

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Accidentally Shot

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 March 1884 · page 3

SYDNEY, Saturday.—Alfred Blomgren 18, and Edward Blomgren, 21, the former the son of Mr. Blomgren, jeweller, of 210 Elizabeth-street, and the latter a nephew,…

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