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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1892

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The S.s. Mamari in Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 January 1892 · page 4

LONDON, January 18.—The Mamari, s.s., 2342 tons, of Sunderland, which left Auckland for London on November 26, has arrived at the latter port with her bows stove in, caused by collision. A…

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A Nasty Fall. Severely Injured. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1892 · page 4

THE caretaker of the Water Police Court, Edwin Tindall, met with a serious accident at the court. It seems that Tindall, who has filled the position of caretaker at the court…

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Terrible Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1892 · page 8

A SHOCKING accident occurred recently at Messrs. Burbie Brothers' lard refinery at Liverpool. About 37 tierces of lard having been emptied into the…

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Queensland. Brisbane, Friday. Serious Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1892 · page 5

Mr. Schoefield, underground manager at Thomas' Aberdare Colliery at Bundamba, met with serious injuries through an accident at the now shaft to-day. He is not expected…

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Death of a Child. Drowned in a Tank. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 January 1892 · page 5

A LITTLE boy named Sydney Powell, aged 3¼ years, son of Thomas Powell, residing at 319 Sussex-street, was found drowned in a water tank containing 5ft of water in the basement…

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CABLEGRAMS. Accident to the Bulgarian Premier. He Shoots Himself While Sleighing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1892 · page 5

SOFIA, Monday.—Whilst Stambouloff, the Bulgarian Premier, was out sleighing yesterday afternoon the revolver which he carried in his pocket accidentally went off,…

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New Zealand. Fatal Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1892 · page 6

At Wellington a telegraph employee named Peter Cheyne fell from the top of a telegraph pole, and was killed instantly…

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Tighe's Hill. Buggy Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1892 · page 5

On Saturday night, between the hours of 11 and 12, a person from Baymond Terrace narrowly escaped a severe accident. It appears the man was driving a horse and…

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Coach Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 January 1892 · page 5

ON Monday night last as the mail coach was journeying from Cassilis to Merriwa the night being very dark, the near front wheel came in contact with a stump on the side of…

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District News. Wallsend. ACCIDENT

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 January 1892 · page 6

AN accident occurred at the Wallsend Calliery yesterday to a youth named Charles Hogg, whose parents reside in Plattsburg. The youth was engaged as a wheeler, and by…

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Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Friday. a Painful Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 January 1892 · page 5

A LABOURER named Edward Phillips, 30, living in Surry Hills, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital to-day by Dr. Wade. While at work on a German steamer a heavy iron…

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Fatal Accident to a Parachutist

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 January 1892 · page 11

LIEUTENANT MANSFIELD, of the Naval Reserve, who on November 13 made a most successful ascent in his balloon Wanderer, descending by his…

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Tram Accident in Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 February 1892 · page 8

AN alarming accident recently occurred at Belleville, a northern suburb of Paris, on the new cable tramway which mounts the hill between that…

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Gallant Rescue From Drowning. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 February 1892 · page 5

A YOUNG man named Henry Tradennic, while swimming in the Hurray River yesterday near Numurkah, got cramps and went under. Henry Guthrie, a friend, jumped in…

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The Welcome.—fatality at Sea

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 February 1892 · page 4

The schooner Welcome, from Kaipara, arrived at Sydney on Sunday. Captain D. K. Cooper reports a sad fatality having occurred at sea. The vessel crossed out the Kaipara bar on the 20th January,…

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Collision in the Harbour

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

The brig [?]ebe whilst sailing into the harbour during Tuesday night collided with the ship Southern Cross. which was lying in the stream loaded and ready for sea. The boom of the brig was…

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South Australia. Accident at Sea

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 February 1892 · page 6

A fatal accident happened during the voyage of the German barque Ernestine. On December 12 a lad named Kapler, 16, who was on his first voyage, was going, alo[?]t on…

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Fatal Ice Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 February 1892 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—Thirty barges lying in the River Odor at Breslau, Prussia, were torn from their moorings yesterday by great floes of drift ice floating down the river…

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Railway Accident at Carlingford. Traffic Delayed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 February 1892 · page 5

FARLY yesterday morning two engines, which left this city together for Sydney, collided with a number of trucks near the Carlingford station, 15 miles, this side of…

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Australian News. New South Wales. Accident to a Jockey

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 February 1892 · page 6

A BOY named Tomlinson was injured at the pony race meeting held at Ulmarra. The pony he was riding bolted from the course and ran against a tree, breaking the lad's leg…

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