Dray Accident
YESTERDAY afternoon some little excitement was created opposite Mr. Banfield's drapery establishment, Blane-street, by the vagaries of a horse attached to a dray loaded with…
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Accidents, 1885
511 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 26
Another Accident at the Sydney Post Office
FOLLOWING close upon the recent terrible and fatal accident at the new Post-office buildings in course of erection in Pitt and George streets, another accident of a…
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A YOUNG man named Albert Malon was working at a hand crane on the Market Wharf yesterday morning, overhauling a chain, when his finger got between the…
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A SAD accident resulting in the death of a stockman named Bowles is reported from Murweh, Queensland, and the following particulars in connection…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Messrs. M'Credie, the contractors for the new post office, having insured the lives of their workmen in the Accident Indemnity Company, the…
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LAST Saturday night week some sailors and firemen belonging to the steamer Yeoman, which left port on Saturday for Adelaide, left their vessel to have a spree, and about…
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PARIS, Thursday.—A shocking and terrible accident occurred to-day in the manufacturing town of Thiers (in the Department of Puy-del Dome, on the…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A railway collision has occurred near Wallerawang. A train with goods, cattle, and a few passengers, from Bathurst, ran into a train with a…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A man named Maurice Gallon fell over an embankment of the Belmore basin in Wollongong harbour and was killed…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Thomas Evans, employed as a number-taker on the Dubbo railway station, whilst taking a number of trucks for despatch to…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A watchman named M'Leod, on board the barque W. O. Wentworth, has been found drowned in Woolloomooloo Bay…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Departmental Board are making inquiries in reference to the railway collision at Wallerawang…
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A SERIOUS railway collision occurred in the Wallerawang station yard on Saturday evening, between 9 and 10 o'clock, by which two trains were badly damaged,…
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A MAN named John Hurley met with a severe accident in the Ferndale pit about noon yesterday. He received several bad cuts and bruises about the back, legs, and…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The driver of a milk cart collided with another cart in the Haymarket, and the wheel went over his head, crushing it in…
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ONE of the cutters at Shay and Munton's saw-mill met with an accident just as he was starting work yesterday. A piece of timber flew from the saw and struck him…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A boy named William Henry Whaley, 12 years of age, was drowned while bathing in the harbour…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A fireman name unknown, belonging to the steamer Port Phillip, fell from the steamer Triumph while intoxicated into the…
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THE Armidale Chronicle reports that Mr. Henry Jurd, of Baker's Creek, near Bundarra, lost his son, a lad of only nine years of age, last week. It…
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A TERRIBLE accident happened yesterday, afternoon at Bullock Island to a boy nine years of age named William Hartup. The little fellow was playing on a loaded coal…
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