Pit Accident
A MINER named Cork, working at the Tighe's Hill Pit, was seriously injured by a fall of coal yesterday afternoon. The sufferer was immediately conveyed in a…
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Accidents, 1885
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Accident at Minmi
A MAN named James Sutton, a miner in the Minmi Colliery, had his leg broken by a fall of coal yesterday. The sufferer was attended to by Dr. Ody, who set the limb,…
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A collision occurred at about 5.30 a.m. yesterday morning in the harbour between the schooner Catherine Agnes, inward bound form Sydney, and the Bannockburn, lying in the stream. It…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The inquest on the bodies of the women killed by the Nemsis-Iberia collision has been further adjourned…
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A SAD accident occurred in East Maitland on Wednesday evening last, by which a promising young man named Frank Barnes, aged nineteen years, met his death. The…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Barry Frost, aged seventeen, residing at Waverley, while fishing at Bondi was carried off the rocks, taken out to sea, and drowned…
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The protected enquiry into this collision was brought to a close on Tuesday, when the jury returned the following verdict: 1. That the deceased women came by their deaths on March 3 by a…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The body of Henry Frost, drowned at Botany, has been recovered…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Robert Dunbar, aged 70, was accidentally poisoned yesterday. He was engaged in wood-chopping at Mrs. Johnson's, on the Esplanade,…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—A Melbourne rifleman named Demetristz Garshe was accidentally shot with a rifle at the butts at Williamstown…
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About half-past is yesterday afternoon a collision took place in the harbour, between the barque Coorong and the three-masted schooner Cairndhu. The Coorong was being removed from the…
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BRISRANE, Monday.—News has been received form Kimberley that the s.s. Gunga (Captain Leggett) collided with the A.S.N. hulk James Paterson, owing to her rudder chain becoming…
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SIR,—Will you kindly grant me a space to contradict the report which appeared in your issue of To-day re collision between the barque Coorong and the schooner Cairndhu. You state that "the…
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YESTERDAY a Mrs. Chenball, living at the Junction, met with an accident on the rocks near Merewethers. She was gathering cockles, when her foot slipped and she…
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A MAN named M'Lauchlin met with a painful accident yesterday at the railway extension. He fell out of a cart and the horse attached ran over him. He was…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The body of a man has been found on the railway line near Cootamundra. He was knocked down by a passing train…
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YESTERDAY morning a man named John Johnson, a seaman on board the American ship Iceberg, met with an accident which will in all probability end fatally. The…
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A MAN named Frederick Dowd was admitted to the Hospital yesterday morning suffering from a fracture of the thigh, caused by falling from an hotel window the night…
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A SERIOUS accident happened on Saturday night to a young man named William Wheeler. He was driving at the railway extension, when the horse attached took…
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Au Inquest was held at the Whit Hart Hotel, Lower George-street, Sydney, on the body of Henry Morris, who was found lying dead la the hold of the s.s. Ghazee on Thursday afternoon. There had…
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