Serious Accident to Dr. Englis
YESTERDAY afternoon, about 5 o'clock, whilst the above-named gentleman was proceeding down Hunter-street, he met with a somewhat serious accident opposite…
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Accidents, 1885
511 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 26
Buggy Accident in Hunter-street
LAST night, between 7 and 8 o'clock, an accident happened in Hunter-street. A son of Mr. Henderson was driving in one of Messrs. Gates and Co.'s buggies, and…
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DAN BALDWIN and Ed. Francis, two miners, working in the Borehole mine, met with an accident while at work yesterday afternoon. Baldwin received a severe wound of about…
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A MINER named George Minto had his collarbone broken and received some other injuries about the chest and hips yesterday morning, in the Wallsend pit, by a fall of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Terrible Accident and G. Od Samaritans
THE Thames Advertiser gives the following particulars concerning a shocking accident to a bushman, William Fraser, employed in a sub-contract at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Supposed Drowning at Maourbra Bay
ON Tuesday afternoon two men were fishing—one, Edward Tucker, at a place known as the Green Rock, Maourbra Bay, and the other, Walter…
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Science has been invoked in in a very remarkable manner by an American inventor for the purpose of preserving ships from the fearful fatalities that are specially due to fogs. Mr. F. D…
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A SERIOUS accident occurred at the breakwater quarry, at Moruya, on Wednesday. Whilst an immense lump of stone was being lifted out of the…
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ON Saturday evening about 7 o'clock a report was current in town that a man had been drowned, which turned out to be only too true. It appears that a man knows as…
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ON Friday afternoon lest, at Stockton, a narrow escape from drowning occurred. It appears that Mr. Peter Hill, a resident, who had just returned to his home from a…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—William Lollier was shot dead on the Frankston beach yesterday by a companion named Harris, of Collingwood, who accidentally…
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YESTERDAY afternoon (says Saturday's Singleton Argus) a young man named Randall Acres was shot by the accidental discharge of a gun which a younger brother…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Charles Joseph Thomas, a cleaner at the Redfern station, was run over by a train at the Burwood station. His body was frightfully mangled…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—A narrow escape from a disastrous collision occurred on the railway line near East Brighton to-day. An excursion train from Melbourne, filled…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—On Friday evening a man named William Loller, a resident of Brighton, was accidentally shot by a Companion named Charles Harris Taylor…
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Captain Stanford, of the steamer Buninyong which arrived here yesterday morning, reports that when leaving Sydney on Tuesday night his vessel ran into the ketch Vision, which was lying…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Every claim against the Government in connection with the Cootamundra railway accident will be heard before the Court. Mr. Geo…
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THE Koroit correspondent of the Age reports that a distressing fatal accident occurred on Friday. Three young men, named Bond, Simmonds, and M'Kinney,…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—At Cooper's Plains race meeting yesterday a lad named Jas. Toohey, of Ipswich, and the horse he was riding, were killed. It was…
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On Tuesday evening Mr. Hans Anderson, whilst returning home on horseback, met with a nasty accident when near the Locomotive Hotel, in Blane-street. The horse…
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