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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1892

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Queensland. Brisbane, Monday. Supposed to Be Drowned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 May 1892 · page 5

Jas. Wren, an old miner, has been missing from Cooktown for a fortnight. He is supposed to be drowned. EXTRAORDINARY VACANCY…

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Painful Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 May 1892 · page 5

YESTERDAY morning a young married man named James Timbrell, met with a painful accident while working at a circular saw in Mr. Frogley's sawmill at Wickham. He…

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Accident at Maitland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 May 1892 · page 5

A MAN named James M'Intyre, employed on Mr. Proudfoot's contract between East and West Maitland, met with a serious accident a day or two back. It seems he had been in…

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Railway Accident. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 May 1892 · page 5

A LAD named Breeze, employed at the railway works, was crushed between the buffers of two engines last night and severely injured. He was passing between a stationary…

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Accident at Dudley Pit. a Horse Dashed to Pieces

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 May 1892 · page 5

ON Monday an accident that resulted in the death of a valuable horse, occurred at the above colliery. At the pit it is the custom to lower the horses down in the cage in the…

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A Nasty Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 May 1892 · page 4

BETWEEN 4 and 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon Henry Saunders, a seaman on the fourmasted ship Lord Brassey, was working aloft, when a rope to which he was clinging gave…

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The Sells' Circus Accident. Quarter Sessions at Glen Innes. Acquitted of Manslaughter. Glen Innes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 May 1892 · page 5

AT the Quarter Sessions yesterday, John Coleman pleaded not guilty to a charge of manslaughter against one Archie Banks on the Tenterfield and Glen Innes railway on…

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Shooting Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 May 1892 · page 5

ALDERMAN BUCHANAN yesterday received news from Sydney that his son, Mr. John Buchanan, who is studying in a seminary in Sydney, had, while incautiously handling an…

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Terrible Boating Accident in Hobson's Bay. Fifteen Footballers Drowned. Heartrending Details. MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 May 1892 · page 4

A HEARTEENDING boating catastrophe occurred on Saturday in the Bay. The members of the Mornington Football Club, numbering 15, left in a small sailing boat to…

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Accident in Hunter-street

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 May 1892 · page 4

YESTERDAY afternoon what came near being a serious accident took place in Hunter-street. A horse attached to an occupied buggy in the main street, near Brown-street,…

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Maitland. ACCIDENTS

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 May 1892 · page 5

Mr. W. C. Markwell met with a nasty accident a few days back. It seems he was thrown out of his buggy and broke his ankle. A fettler [?] Martin Markham…

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Underwriters and Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 May 1892 · page 4

At the annual meeting and dinner of the San Francisco Association of Marine Underwriters, held lately, Mr. [?]. S. Smith read a paper on "Collisions." He said that the ratio of collisions…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Monday. the Drowning Disaster

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 May 1892 · page 5

The deepest regret is felt and expressed for the 15 unfortunates drowned in the Mornington boating disaster on Saturday. The search parties were out all day in boats along…

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Boating Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 May 1892 · page 4

LONDON, Monday.—A terrible boating fatality has occurred in Switzerland. Fifteen young ladies had gone on a pleasure trip on Lake Zurich, when the vessel capsized…

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Accident to the Prince Baudouin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 May 1892 · page 4

Messrs. Jules Renard and Company have received cable news to the following effect:—"The s.s. Prince Baudouin, which left Hamburg in April, has grounded at the Cape of Good Hope (Table…

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'Bus Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 May 1892 · page 5

As No. 31 'bus was coming into town last evening from Carrington, followed up closely by the 'bus know as "The Yankeo," both collided in Hunter-street. The first-named…

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District News. Minmi. ACCIDENT

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 May 1892 · page 5

A minor named Richard Williams, employed in No. 4 tunnel, experienced a severe accident last Monday morning. It seems that the unfortunate follow was engaged…

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Death of Father Lynch. Found Drowned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 May 1892 · page 3

THE melancholy news reached Tamworth on Saturday evening (says the Tamworth News) that on the morning of that day the body of Father Lynch,…

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'Bus Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 May 1892 · page 5

YESTERDAY, as the Smedmore 'bus was proceeding to town, on its first trip, the spokes of one of the hind wheels parted company from the hub, when immediately…

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A Charge of Shot in the Head. Accidental Shooting. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 May 1892 · page 5

YESTERDAY afternoon a man named George Huntingdon, 31, who resides in Miller-street, North Shore, was taken to the local hospital suffering from a serious injury to the skull…

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