Fatal Accident at Pyrmont
SEVERAL accidents more or less serious in character have happened within a short period at the Pyrmont quarries, and on Friday another took place. This would seem…
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Accidents, 1885
511 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 26
Serious Accident
A MAN named John Turnbull met with a serious accident yesterday at the Redhead coal pit where he was working. A lump of coal [?] upon his leg, crushing it badly…
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At the inquest on the body of John Cannon, killed at the Pyrmont stone quarries, the verdict was accidental…
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A man named Bradshaw, employed in the maintenance gang on the Clermont railway, was killed on Saturday. He endeavoured to get into the guards' van while…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Serious Accident to a Doctor
ADELAIDE, Wednesday.—Dr. Charles Gosse was thrown from a vehicle in Hutt-street broke his right leg, and was otherwise injured. His condition is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident in a Graveyard
Wednesday.—A young man named Harry Hatchman was excavasing at the South Brisbane cemetery, when two tons of stone and earth fell, crushing him fearfully. He…
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A LAD named John Samson had his thigh broken on Tuesday through being caught by a skip. He was immediately attended by Dr. Nash, and is doing well…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident to Clifford
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Clifford, the sculler, met with a serious accident at Gladesville to-day, the result of which will incapacitate his rowing for fully six months…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Serious Accident to Hanlan
LONDON, Wednesday.—Edward Hanlan while rowing at Toronto yesterday met with a serious accident, by which he was nearly drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Railway Accident at Cootamundra
In the case Adams V. Commissioner for Railways, the jury gave the following answers to specific questions left for their decision:—1. Were the culverts…
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A man named Joseph Kelsall was killed at about 6 o'clock on Monday night while he was returning from his selection on Alice River. The body of the deceased…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A[?] Earful Accident on the Railway Line
ON Friday evening, about 7 o'clock (says the Dubbo Despatch) a fatal accident occurred on the railway line, about four miles from Ny[?]gan, by which a fettler named Patrick…
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A LITTLE girl of Mr. James Williams, met with a severe accident about noon yesterday. The child was playing in the street when one of Manning Brothers' carts passed, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fall of Scaffolding. Serious Accidents
The lofty scaffolding in front of the new Joint Stock Bank in George-street fell to the ground this morning. A number of passengers walking on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fall of a Scaffolding in Sydney. Three Men Injured
WHILE the usual busy crowd was hurrying along George-street on Friday morning, the thoroughfare at the corner of King and George-streets…
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Denny Ryan, a miner, was severely injured by a fall of earth in the old Bushman's Reef, near Parkee, on Saturday. Both his legs were fractured. He…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Government Allowance to Railway Workmen in Case of Accidents
ONE of the regulations in the Railway Department is that workmen meeting with accidents at their employment shall receive four-fifths of their ordinary…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A man employed on the steamer Wodonga has been scalded to death by the bursting of a plate from a boiler when off Botany Heads…
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A fatal accident accurred at Dubbo last Saturday to the son of Mr. James Sparkes, manager of the Murrumbidgerio station. It appears that the deceased,…
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George, Pillar, a carter, was found yesterday on the railway between Malvern and Caulfield stations with both feet cut off and his head battered, evidently by…
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