Accident to a Miner
ON Saturday morning a severe accident happened to a man named Matthew Robson, a miner employed in the Borehole pit. He by some means got jammed in…
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Accidents, 1885
511 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 26
A Railway Accident Averted
ON Friday night about 10 o'clock a man who was in an advanced state of inebriety would have been mangled by the train but for timely assistance. The man's…
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ON Saturday afternoon whilst Mr. Edward Scott, vehicle proprietor of Watt-street, was engaged clipping a young horse which he only purchased on Thursday last, the…
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OUR Wallsend correspondent writing last evening says:—A young girl, the daughter of Mr. David Hughes, fell into a tank this afternoon, and before she could be got out…
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IT will be remembered that in January last a man named George Pankhurst, a carter and van proprietor, had to have his hand amputated in the Newcastle Hospital…
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SIR,—I see by this morning's paper that George Pankhurst is to have nothing from Government as a compensation for his late accident. I am sorry for it. I have…
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DURING one of the very busiest hours of to-day there occurred in, perhaps, the busiest and most bustling part of the city, where people were thronging to and fro, and the…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mr. Capell, injured in the collision between the Nemesis and the Iberia, died from the effects to-day. It will be recollected that his…
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IT will be remembered that the collision between these two vessels on the occasion of the departure of the troops crushed the life out of two poor women, one of whom…
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DURING the passage of the steamer Albatross from Sydney to Brisbane Water (says the Evening News) there was one of those sad occurrences which are only too frequent…
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ON Saturday a sailor named Gustav Carlson, a seaman on board the Norwegian barque Ystava, was admitted to the hospital suffering from a broken rib, said to have…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The body of John Bowie, a resident at Pyrmont, has been found in the harbour…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The ship Bedfordshire has arrived from Liverpool. On May 5th a seaman named Albert Burns fell from the ship and was drowned…
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THIS morning the City Coroner, Mr. H. Shiell, J.P., held an inquest at the South Sydney Morgue on the body of Stephen Sponzar, who was killed on…
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INFORMATION has been received at Adelaide of the death of a teamster, named James Tea, who was found drowned in Cooper's Creek on 15th…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A labourer named John Collins, in endeavouring to enter a train whilst in motion at Burwood, slipped between the carriage and the…
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IT is reported that Dr. Beeston met with rather a serious accident yesterday morning in Hunter-street. By some means or other whilst riding his leg was broken,…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A miner named John Wren has been killed at Cobar by a fall of rock…
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AN accident attended with fatal consequences occurred near East Maitland on Friday evening. The circumstances are of a very painful character…
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COBAR, Tuesday.—A man named John Wren was accidentally killed by a fall of rock in a mine to-day…
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