Fatal Accident. Sydney
A TERRIBLE accident con[?]rred at the Colonial Sugar Company's Works, Pyrmont, this morning, as a result of which a man named Thomas Matthews was killed, and several…
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Accidents, 1898
362 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 19
Cycling Fatality Sydney
A SHOCKING accident occurred in Regent-street this afternoon by which a boy named Cecil Hudson, son of Mr. George Hudson, timber merchant, of George-street, Redfern,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatality at Hexham. a Railway Officer Killed
WHILE engaged yarding horse at Hexham on Saturday morning, Mr. Robert Carpenter, the night officer at the local railway station, was violently thrown from his horse, as the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Intercolonial News. New South Wales. Sydney, Saturday. Accident
WHILE at work this morning in a boot factory at Alexandria, a lad named Fredk. Shaw, 15, got his hand caught in the rollers of an engine. The hand was severely…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Hexham Fatality. Magisterial Inquiry
MR. G. C. MARTIN the district coroner, held a magisterial enquiry at the Hexham railway station yesterday morning, touching the death of Robert Alexander Carpenter, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Australia. Adelaide, Tuesday. Three Boys Drowned
Five young boys were playing near First Creck, behind Prince Alfred College, this morning, when a sudden freshet, caused by the late rains, came along and carried them…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ohio Breaks its Bank. a Town Nearly Destroyed. 200 Persons Drowned
LONDON, Monday.—The River Ohio has burst its bank at Shawnee Town, in the State of Illinois. The rushing waters destroyed the greater portion…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Collision in the Harbour
A COLLISION occurred in the harbour last evening between the American barque Empire and the British ship Four Winds. The latter vessel had just arrived from sea,…
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MR. WILLIAM TUCK, one of the travellers for the Maitland Brewing Company, had a narrow escape of receiving fatal injuries by a fall from his sulky on Good Friday, while…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Victoria. Melbourne, Sunday. Accident at the Camp
At the military camp at Ballarat yesterday Sergeant-major Algie, of the Mounted Rifles, when mounting his horse slipped and fell on his leg, badly fracturing it. He is now in…
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Yesterday Captain Witherspoon, acting on behalf of Bureau Veritas, for which company he is the local surveyor, made a survey of the barque Empire to ascertain the extent of the damage damage caused by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident on the Namoi
WHEN the steamer Na[?]ol was nearing town yesterday on her return from the excursion to Morpeth an accident occurred by which one of the passengers, a six-year-old boy…
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Last evening as a son of Mr. T. Curley, of Denison-street, was crossing from the footpath to board an outgoing tram at the Hannell-street…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Lambton. Drowned in a Well
Between 11 and 12 o'clock yesterday morning a fine little five-year-old girl, the daughter of Alderman Benj Bradley, was accidentally drowned in an underground tank. The well,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Singular Railway Accident. Sydney
A YOUNG man named Harold Humphries had his foot badly crushed last night while proceeding to Sydney in the Northern passenger train. When the train was passing through…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Lambton. the Drowning Case
Mr. M. J. Walsh held a magisterial inquiry in the local reading-room yesterday morning touching the death of the little girl Myra…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shocking Railway Accident. Twenty-five Volunteers Injured
LONDON, Tuesday.—A dreadful railway accident occurred yesterday near Bisley, at which place the Easter volunteer encampment was being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Street Accident. Sydney
THE city coroner initiated an inquest to-day, relative to the death of a station manager named John Alexander Gamack, who expired in Sydney Hospital on Monday night,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Recent Railway Accident
IT appears that the recent railway accident to the train on the Northern line was more serious than at first supposed, no less than three axles having been broken. The train…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Intercolonial News. New South Wales. Sydney, Friday. Fatal Accident
A MAN 69 years of age named James Thomas Fullham died at the Sydney Hospital this morning. The cause of death was compression of the Spinal cord and hemorrhage. It…
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