Accident to a Colliery Manager
MR. JAMES DEAN, a surface manager for the Wigan (England) Coal and Iron Company, Limited, lost his life recently, under peculiar and melancholy…
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Accidents, 1890
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Victoria. Melbourne, Tuesday. the Sandhurst Mining Accident
The Governor has contributed £20 to the relief of the families of the victims in the Sandhurst mining accident. Two of the injured are getting on well, the other two are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queensland. Brisbane, Wednesday. Mob of Cattle Drowned
A mob of cattle belonging to Messrs. Cobb and Co. were caught in the floods at Malvern Hill station boundary. Seven hundred head were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Terrible Floods in Queensland. Woman and Three Children Drowned. Rain Still Falling. BRISBANE
TERRIBLE floods occurred at Glastonbury Creek, 13 miles from Gympie, on Monday night. The creek, which is ordinarily a shallow stream, rose in consequence of heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →(From Sydney and Melbourne Papers.) Accident to the Mail Train
LONDON, Tuesday.—It is transpired that the Australian mails were not sent by the train which was wrecked on the Union-Pacific Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Risks. Fatal Accident at Het on Colliery
RICHARD CRAIG, a miner, was killed in the Hetton Colliery about 11 o'clock yesterday morning, by a small fall of coal from the face. He was well-known in the district, resided at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Decision in a Collision Case
THE Court of Appeal have upheld the decision of Mr. Justice Butt that the steamer Glencoe was alone to blame for the collision which occurred between that vessel and the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Hetton Accident. The Inquest
AN inquest was held at the Glebe Hotel, before Mr. G. C. Martin, District Coroner, at half-past 10 o'clock yesterday morning, on the body of the man Robert Cragg, who was…
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THE Russian barque Ross arrived off Dover on December 4 in charge of a tug, having been in collision in the Channel during the night, in clear weather and a calm sea. She…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Victoria. Accident to a Steamer
Three days after leaving Dunedin the engines of the steamer Manapouri became partially disabled by the fore-connecting rod breaking, so Captain Logan decided to make…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Accident at Barnum's Show
A VERY regrettable accident occurred at Barnum's show, Olympia, London, on December 3. It happened about half-past 11, when the head trainer, Mr. Newman, was…
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A PECULIAR accident happened to a miner named Joseph Albery, at Toralba, on Saturday evening. He was standing in his own doorway, when a young man named Fulton,…
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A FRIGHTFUL accident happened on Thursday at Lancefield on a farm owned by a man named Parkes. It appears (says the Melbourne Age) that a middle-aged man named…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident at the Circus
AN accident occurred at the circus on Friday night which, however, did not appear to have attracted much attention at the time. It appears that one of the top seats in…
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William Allison, sawmill proprietor, of Sugarloaf, near Stanthorpe, and old identity while out riding dashed into a projecting tree and was killed. Louisa Peterson, of the…
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ABOUT 9 o'clock last evening a goods engine was shunting in the Newcastle Railway-yard, and when linking some trucks up it struck them rather forcibly and throw two off the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The South Burwood Colliery Accident. Concert in Aid of the Sufferers
THE programme of the concert in aid of the sufferers by the recent calamitous accident at South Burwood, at which four lives were lost, will be found in our advertising columns…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Latest Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Wednesday. Serious Accident
A QUARRYMAN, named James Ward, met with a serious accident, from which fatal results are expected, at Darling Harbour railway cutting this evening. He was in the…
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The following items of news are extracted from the Singapore Free Press:— The steamer St. Dunstan recently fouled H.M.S. Conquest's buoy in the harbour at Hongkong, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest District News. Lambton. 'Bus Accident
ON Thursday night while Mr. A. Cropper was returning home from Newcastle with his 'bus, drawn by a pair of horses, he had a mishap. When near the Lambton Bridge a…
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