Accidental or Intentional a Man Shot. Sydney, Friday Night
AT about a quarter past 1 o'clock this morning a dealer named John Woodward, 21, residing at Redfern, was shot by a man near the railway bridge, George-street…
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Accidents, 1890
668 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 34
Sad Drowning Fatality
A SAD drowning accident occurred at Tighe's Hill on Saturday morning, when a young man employed at Hunter River smelting works, named John William Carr, 16 years of age,…
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ON Saturday evening at about 8 o'clock the fate of poor little George Donnelly, whose disappearance was reported in Saturday's issue of the paper, was solved by the…
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ABOUT twenty minutes to 12 o'clock on Saturday night a man named Gibson, who resides at Hamilton, arrived at Farley by the down mail train. After leaving the station…
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THE body of Mr. Gepp was found by the search parties on Friday, some miles from the mines. He had evidently been thrown from his horse, and his injuries were so…
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MISS M'MELLAS, daughter of a Methodist minister, Miss Green, and Miss Barclay, a shop girl, have each received £1000 compensation from the Great Northern Railway…
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ONE of the most dreadful accidents I have heard of for a long time, was that by which the Hon. J. G. Ramsay lost his life. Mr. Ramsay had been on a visit to the north,…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—Intelligence has been received of a terrible accident in the State of Indiana. A train, while approaching the town of Salem, in crossing a bridge, suddenly…
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AN accident happened yesterday morning at the new English Church building, Stockton, whereby two bricklayers named Hancock and Latham were slightly injured. Fortunately…
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As the steamer Taghaferro, was swinging round at the Dyke about 7 o'clock, last evening, preparatory to proceeding to sea, she collided with the barque Jane Porter, which was berthed at the…
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An accident happened at a picnic party on Monday which appeared for some time to have caused serious injuries to more than one of the sufferers. It appears two young ladies,…
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A lad named Victor Stuttered, the son of an Ulverstone storekeeper, was drowned whilst bathing in the River Leven on Wednesday. The body was recovered two…
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THE hon. sec. of the Newcastle Salvage Corps, "ambulance class," Mr. S. L. Holt, recently wrote to the secretary of the Royal Humane Society of Australasia in Melbourne,…
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SHORTLY after 5 o'clock last evening a youth named Cecil Hannell, a son of Captain Hannell, saw the body of a man floating in the water near the place where the tug boats…
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ABOUT 9 o'clock on Saturday evening a man named David Donnelly was knocked down by a horse in Hunter-street. It appears that in common with hundreds of other people he…
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LONDON, Sunday.—A fall of rock in a mine at Wilkesbarro, America, caused an explosion of gas, by which two were killed and many fatally injured…
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On Friday as a ballast train was proceeding from Mordialloc to Melbourne, one of the studs of the firebox on the locomotive blew out. This was followed by a rush of steam,…
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AN inquest was held at the Clarendon Hotel before Mr. G. C. Martin, District Coroner, at 11 o'clock yesterday morning, on the body of a man named James Dalton, which was…
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A SAILOR named Frederick Hafke, aged 19 years, fell down the hold of the ship Ladakh shortly before 9 o'clock last evening, and sustained severe injuries. It appears that…
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THE number of deaths from mining accidents in England has, during 1889, been heavy. The fatalities from explosions, which in 1888 were only 49—about the lowest on…
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