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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1892

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Anarchist Outrages. Seventy Persons Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 March 1892 · page 5

PARIS, Monday.—The latest outrage by anarchists has caused a feeling of excitement and dismay in the city. The house is considered unsafe, and the occupants have…

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Railway Accident. a Leg Terribly Crushed. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 March 1892 · page 5

LATE on Saturday night a shunter named Matthew Judge, employed at Albury railway station, met with a terrible accident, necessitating the amputation of his…

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Horrible Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 March 1892 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—A terrible accident, resulting in the death of several persons, has occurred at a steel foundry at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. An immense vat of molten…

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The Caitloch.—drowning Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 March 1892 · page 4

On the voyage of the swedish barque Caitlech, which arrived at Sydney on Monday, a lad named Skedin, a Swede, was struck by a sea on December 10 and disappeared over the side, never to be seen…

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The Drowning Fatalities

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 March 1892 · page 4

THE weather was so boisterous yesterday that the water police were unable to drag for the bodies of Speirs and Thomas, the victims of the late boating accident in the…

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New Zealand. Accidentally Killed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 March 1892 · page 6

A young man named John Cull, while out shooting with a companion near Palmeraton North, was accidentally shot dead by the latter…

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Accident to the Mary Warner

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 March 1892 · page 4

Just after the arrival of the barque Kate Tatham from Adelaide yesterday morning, she had the misfortune to do some slight damage to the little schooner Mary Warner. It appears that the…

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Federal-strathearn Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 March 1892 · page 4

An inquiry was commenced by the local Marine Board yesterday, concerning the collision between the steamer Federal and the barque Strathearn, which took place this week. Captain Newgreen…

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Miners' Risks. Accident at Stockton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 March 1892 · page 5

ON the afternoon of the 28th instant, a miner named Solomon Hislop was holeing in the Stockton Pit, when a portion of the tops came away and fell on him. He was…

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Federal-strathearn Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 April 1892 · page 4

The local Marino Board continued the inquiry concerning the Federal-Strathearn collision yesterday, when the captain of the Federal gave evidence. The Board will probably give its…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Monday. FATALITY

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

Joseph Fizley, of Geelong, while trimming a grape vine, fell to the ground, and the cutter pierced his body. When he was picked up it was found he was dead…

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Training Accident. a Jockey Severely Hurt. SYDNEY

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

AN accident of a very serious nature happened this morning on the Agricultural Ground, Moore Park, resulting in the instantaneous death of two racehorses, Miss Servy…

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The Federal-strathearn Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 April 1892 · page 4

The following is the report and decision of the local Marine Board, given yesterday in the matter of the collision between the s.s. Federal and the barque Strathearn:—An enquiry was held before…

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Terrible Quarry Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 April 1892 · page 8

A FATAL accident occurred on February 24th at a quarry in the neighbourhood of the Royal Palace of Ajuda, near Lisbon, an immense quantity of rock…

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Drowned in the Flood. Armidale

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 April 1892 · page 5

New has been received here from Hillgrove that a terrible storm occurred there last night. The Cosmopolitan dam broke away and the water rushed down the shaft of…

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Accident at the West Wallsend Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 April 1892 · page 8

YESTERDAY morning the steel rope attached to the cages in the West Wallsend Colliery parted while two skips of coal were being drawn up. The ascending, cage was more…

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Tram Accident. No One Injured. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 April 1892 · page 5

A RATHER peculiar tram accident occurred this morning in Belmore Park, where two trams came into collision. A little before 9 o'clock a tram, whilst ascending the steep…

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Accident in Scott-street

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 April 1892 · page 4

ABOUT 9 o'clock last evening a young man, aged 20, named John M'Lean, a baker, was thrown from a sulky in Scott-street, and was slightly injured. It appears that the young…

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Queensland. Accident in the River

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 April 1892 · page 6

While two steamers, the Woolwich and Alice, were assisting the Peregrine up the river against the flood the Peregrine's propeller struck the…

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The Late Boating Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 April 1892 · page 5

THE water police have kept a vigilant watch for the bodice of the unfortunate men Spiers and Thomas, who lost their lives in the recent boating accident off the dyke, but their…

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