Queensland. Winton, Monday. Fatal Gun Accident
Sid Glendenning, aged 19, was putting a loaded gun on a waggonette at Sesbania holding, when the muzzle exploded. The charge entered his side. He was conveyed…
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Accidents, 1895
458 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 23
The Drowning Fatality
A fairly large number of people in the Maitland district have expressed themselves in such a manner regarding the recent drowning fatality as to lead to the conclusion…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Queensland. Cooktown, Tuesday. Drowned
Alfred Hopponworth was this afternoon crossing to North Shore in a dingy when it capsized. He was drowned within 300yds of the shore. His body was recovered…
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Later.—Fuller particulars regarding the grounding of the R.M.S. Oroya at Naples state that the number of passengers landed is 70. The landing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Accident to a Barmaid. Sydney
A MAGISTERIAL inquiry was held to-day concerning the death of Alice Hogan, a barmaid, who was killed last night by falling from a door at the Victoria Cafe, George-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident in the Wallsend Colliery
A MINER named George Hall, residing at Blue Gum Flat, Wallsend, sustained severe injuries to the legs and shoulders at the Wallsend Colliery on Monday. From what…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Young Wallsend. Road Accident
On Saturday night, as one of our townsmen, Mr. Laverick, was riding home from Wallsend he met with a severe accident. He was riding a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Queensland. Brisbane, Wednesday. Fatal Horse Accident
Mr. H. V. Broughan, a well-known pastoralist, was thrown from his horse on his station on the Logan River yesterday and killed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Captain Matthew Byrnes Drowned. a Sad Case. Sydney
EARLY this morning the dead body of Captain Matthew Byrnes, ferry boat proprietor, was found floating in the water between his steamer Princess and the wharf at Pyrmont…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Accident to a Boy. Sydney
A MAGISTERIAL inquiry was held this afternoon concerning the death of a boy named Frederick Challinor, age 15, who was yesterday fatally injured at Ward's engineering…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident at Wickham
YESTERDAY afternoon whilst a man named Charles Smith, who lives in Melville-street, Junction, was fixing a skylight in the Sunday school of the Wesleyan Church, a large…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Risks. Accident at the Newcastle A Pit
YESTERDAY Robert Wilson, a miner-residing at Adamstown, had a miraculous escape from death while following his occupation in the Newcastle Company's A Pit. Wilson was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victoria. Melbourne, Monday. Railway Fatality
John Mallard, foreman of carriages at Flinders-street station, was knocked down and killed by a shunting engine to-day. DIED IN HARNESS…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Accident at the Zig Zag. a Dangerous Position. Lithgow
ON the big Zig Zag to-day a passenger train to Sydney was backing up from the Zig Zag platform, and just at the top of the points the tender ran off the road throwing off the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident to the Merkara
The British-India steamer Merkara left Brisbane on Tuesday for London and returned again yesterday. The captain reports that as he was leaving Moreton Bay a squall clouded every mark, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Wednesday. Accident
While engaged yarding cattle at Camper-down saleyards to-day a man named Robert Laurie, residing at Annandale, had a couple of ribs fractured by one of the animals…
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Information was received in West Maitland yesterday forenoon that a child 15 months old, daughter of Mrs. Rowcliff, of Lochinvar, had met its death by drowning in a tank…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →South Australia. Adelaide, Friday. Driving Fatality
A man named Whytehand was thrown from a trap to-day. He died in the Adelaide Hospital. WELCOME RAIN…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Accident to the Merkara
The steamer Merkara, which grounded in the Brisbane River, has been docked, and found to have sustained very slight damage. It consisted of three rivets in one of the bottom plates being started. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatality at Raymond Terrace
MR GEORGE GAITES, age 34, was killed at Raymond Terraco on Saturday morning, by a fall of stone in a quarry. The deceased, who was a contractor, was taking some stone…
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