Accident to Mr. P. James
WE regret to learn that Mr. P. James of Bullock Island met with a serious accident at Wallsend yesterday. He was driving a pair of horses, one of which got restive and…
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Accidents, 1885
511 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 26
Fireman Drowned
ON Tuesday night, William Nelson, fourth officer of the steamer Triumph, lying at Grafton Wharf, Sydney, reported to the police that a man name unknown (but…
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A DISTRESSING accident happened last Thursday (says the Glen Innes Examiner) to Mr. Charles Huddy, a van proprietor, who for the last 20 years has plied his vocation in…
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[?]Y, Friday.—The daughter of sergeant Pirie has been burnt to through her clothes taking fire…
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ABOUT 12 o'clock on Saturday morning a seaman belonging to the steamer Bombay, lying alongside the wharf had a narrow escape from meeting with a watery grave…
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WOLLONGONG, Saturday.—A navvy named Peterson was struck on the head by a stone from a blast at a cutting near Wollongong, on the railway works. He…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—The bodies of Patrick Gleeson, of Snakey Creek Station, and a relative named O'Brien, were found in a swamp off the main road, 20…
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On the voyage of the ship Samuel Plimsoll from London to Sydney, on April 4th, during a storm, an able seaman named J. Mitchell had a marvellous escape from being drowned (says the Sydney…
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LONDON, Friday.—A terrible accident has occurred at Pendlebury, Lancashire. The bodies of 22 victims have already been taken out, but 142 men and boys…
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Edward Coulton, an elderly man, a resident of Gympie, walked over the wharf at Maryborough alongside the steamer Truganini on Saturday night, and…
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William Ferrier, 19, fell through a skylight in the Sydney Arcade during the procession to-day. He was taken to the hospital, where he[?]lies in a critical state…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Frances Albury, a resident of Balmain, was found drowned in a creek off Green-street to-day…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A boy named Collins, with other children, went to gather ice from a waterhole near the Spring Mount school, Creswick, yesterday…
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A little boy named Earnest Gibson was killed on Sunday night by being run over by a train in front of the Glenelg railway station, William-street. The wheels…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A large swag has been found on the banks of the Murrumbidgee, near Gundagai. It is supposed that a man has fallen in the river and…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Christopher Davis a shipwright, was drowned in the harbour by the capsizing of a boat. The body of the fireman belonging to…
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A MAN named W. Walmsley met with a painful accident whilst working on the wharf yesterday morning. He was helping five others to lift an iron rail which had…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—An accident occurred at the Pyrmont quarries to-day. While raising a stone weighing over 10 tons the beam of the crane broke, killing one man,…
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A fatal accident occurred in Clifton, near Wollongong, on Thursday. About 2 o'clock in the morning a large tree fell across three tents, in one of which a man named John…
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On Tuesday a man named James Bassington was clearing timber at Gatton, when a falling tree struck another and knocked off some branches, one of which…
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