Fatal Colliery Accidents
A FATAL, accident occurred at No. 2 Markham Pit, which the Staveley Coal and Iron Company are sinking at Staveley, near Chesterfield. It is alleged that the engineman's…
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Accidents, 1887
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Sad Drowning Accident at Tamworth. TAMWORTH
A SAD accident occurred this afternoon at Goonoo Goonoo Station. A fine little boy, about two years and a-half old, son of Mr. G. B. G. King,…
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IT took Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Branson a very long time to make up their minds as to the precise locality wherein to spend the Long Vacation in the…
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AT Messrs. Morison and Bearby's iron-foundry at Carrington on Friday afternoon while some men were employed in breaking up some old metal…
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It seems to me, Gerald, that you are getting lid with that woman; I have never seen you so attentive to anyone since we were married, and I…
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MR. G. C. MARTIN, J.P., held an inquest at the Coffee Palace Hotel, Blane-street, yesterday afternoon, into the cause of the death of Thomas…
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THE Lake of Constance was recently the scene of a sad disaster. The Austrian steamer Hapsburg, just as it left the port of Lindau, ran into the Bavarian steamer coming from…
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A GOODS train has been run into by a mail train near Wellington and several passengers injured. A horse belonging to the Inspector of…
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A SHOCKING calamity, which unhappily terminated in the loss of human life, occurred at Branxton yesterday. Two boys, of whom one was a son of Mr. George Thomas, the…
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A MAN named James. Orerton, living in Hamilton, met with an accident on Saturday last in the A. A. Company's pit. A fall of coal took place and the unfortunate man had…
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ON Saturday afternoon, whilst Mr. James Fletcher, the manager of the Wickham and Bullock Island Colliery, and a friend were exercising a young horse in a buggy at…
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YESTERDAY afternoon, information was received in town stating that a man named Anderson, employed on board a lighter at Hexham, had been knocked overboard by…
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A PATROLMAN named Hazelton was killed on Saturday morning in precisely the same manner as Turner a few weeks ago, and whom Hazelton succeeded, the accident being very…
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A SAD fatality occurred recently at the Herberton end of No. 4 tunnel, near the Eleven. Mile, at the locality called Beard's Camp-Whilst a number of men, the majority of…
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A TERRIBLE colliery disaster has occurred at Aberdare, Wales, where 340 men were entombed. Two hundred have been rescued. It is believed the…
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IN the Assembly on Tuesday, Mr. M'Millan asked the Secretary for Public Works,—(1.) Is the aware that owing to an accident which occurred a short time ago at Petersham a…
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THE victim of the gun accident—Wm. Burt—is progressing as favourably as can be expected under the circumstances, and there are hopes of his…
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After continuous and unabated work, the whole of the miners who were entombed through a colliery accident near Aberdare, Wales, have been rescued. Many of them…
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A MOST lamentable occurrence took place on Saturday afternoon near Hexham, by which two lives were lost. It appears from the information to hand that Mr. William Cahill,…
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MR. GEO. C. MARTIN, J.P., District Coroner, held an inquest at Broom's Royal Hotel, Wickham, yesterday forenoon, into the circumstances…
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