Accidents at Ships' Stagings
EVERY year it is our sad duty to chronicle the drowning of sailors by their falling off stagings while working at ships' sides, or the breaking of the ropes by which the…
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Accidents, 1891
596 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 30
A Serious Accident
A CARTER named William Harvey, engaged at the Castlemaine Brewery, met with a serious accident, at Tighe's Hill, about a quarter to 8 o'clock yesterday morning. He…
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LAST evening, while Mrs. Blackwell, aged 55, residing at Frederick-street, was getting out of a 'bus at the Junction, she slipped and fell heavily to the ground. She was taken…
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AN elderly man named John Gellatly lost his life under very sad circumstances last evening. About 7 o'clock he was making his way from the barque Verulam to the hulk…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Harbour Fatality. the Inquest
AN inquest was held before Mr. G. C. Martin, district coroner, at the Clarendon Hotel, at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, on the body of the young man James…
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DURING the recent encampment at Campbelltown, Bandman Kerr, of the New South Wales Cavalry Band, was thrown from his horse while watering same. It was feared at…
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THE body of John Gallatly, who fell overboard at Port Waratah on Friday evening, while crossing from the barque Ver[?]lam to the hulk Bosphorus, was recovered by the…
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Two Brixham trawling vessels, Susan Patey and Dazzler, were in collision near Start Point on the night of February 24. Both sank immediately, and five men and boys…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Drowning Case at Port Waratah. Inquest and Verdict
AN inquest, touching the death of John Gellately, who was drowned at Port Waratah on Friday evening last, was held in the Clarendon Hotel,…
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The local Marine Board held an inquiry yesterday concerning the collision in the harbour on the night of the 2nd instant, between the barque Conference and the barque Ellen. There were present:…
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MR. G. O. MARTIN, district coroner, held a magisterial inquiry at Fassifern railway station, at 9 o'clock yesterday morning, touching the death of the man Homer…
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The local Marine Board gave its decision yesterday, concerning the collision between the barques Conference and Ellen, which took place in the harbour on the night of the 2nd inst. The Board…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Thursday. a Railway Fatality
PENEITH has again been the scene of another sad railway fatality, which cost Laurence Martin, aged 30, his life. It seems Martin was a railway shunter, and was following his…
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ON Saturday evening an accident occurred to the tram which left Lambton at 4.23 for Newcastle, which might have proved serious to a number of passengers, the driver, and…
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The Newcastle Steamship Company's steamer Boomerang arrived at Sydney on Saturday, from Barronjoey, where she ran to on Friday, with a rope round her propeller. Captain Skinner states…
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ABOUT 11 o'clock on Friday night, a labourer named James Ellie, 27, was in the act of crossing the line at Tuggorah Railway Station, when he was knocked own by a train, which…
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MARSHALL, a jockey, while riding Premier in the Selling Hurdles, at the S.A. Jockey Club meeting yesterday, fell with his horse at a fence in front of the grand stand. The…
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At Lorne on Friday, A. R. Peace, mate of the Chi Hoon, and formerly harbour-master at Geelong, with a seaman named John M'Intyre, were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Monday. the Tuggerah Railway Accident
THE unfortunate man, John Ellis, who was admitted to the Sydney Hospital on Saturday morning, having lost both his legs through being knocked down and run over by a train…
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The ketch Joker arrived yesterday morning, from Port Stephens, with timber for repairing the cargo wharf. When berthing at the wharf she met with a slight mishap, and had a portion of her…
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