Accident in a Colliery. a Shiftman Killed
The Wallsend Mining Company's C pit was yesterday morning the scene of a shocking accident, by which Martin Horgan, a shiftman, 29 years of age, lost…
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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
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The Wallsend Mining Company's C pit was yesterday morning the scene of a shocking accident, by which Martin Horgan, a shiftman, 29 years of age, lost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Wallsend Courthouse, yesterday, Mr. C. Hibble, district coroner, concluded an inquiry into the death of Martin Horgn, who had been killed at the Wallsend Company's [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →While engaged in trials on the Clyde, the new steamer Maori, built for the New Zealand trade, collided with the steamer Kintyre…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.âDuring the army manoeuvres at Karlowitz, Hungary, two corporals were killed with ball cartridges…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Considerable excitement was ,caused at Morpeth and East Maitland yesterday afternoon by a runaway horse attacked to an sulky. The horse is a fine chestnut stallion that Mr. J. D…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Joseph Richardson, an employee of the Railway Commissioners, was fatally injured at about 9.30 last night, while engaged in shunting operations at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Saturday.—A cage containing 17 miners was being hauled up a shaft at a mine attached to Jones and M'Laughlin's steelworks, at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An inquest who held at the Newcastle courthouse on Saturday afternoon by the Deputy Coroner, Mr. G. T. Edwards, touching upon the death of Joseph Richardson, who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Great loss of life was caused by a railway collision in Mexico yesterday. Two trains, one laden with passengers and the other with goods, collided…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At about three o'clock on Saturday morning George Player, employed as a horsedriver by the Carrington Co-operative Coal Shipping Company, was knocked…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The conference of delegates upon matters in connection with the operation of the miners' accident relief fund was resumed at the Newcastle Hotel on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shortly after 7 o'clock this morning a boy named Alfred Wallace Arnold, aged 16, who lived in Railway-parade, Kogarah, caught a train at the Kogarah…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.—During a motor race at New York one of the competitors, while travelling at the rate of 60 miles an hour lost control of his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Early yesterday morning a seaman named Karl E. Sellquist, employed on the steamer Oceano, then lying at the Dyke, fell down the hold of the vessel, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday.—An electric tramcar in Birmingham was overturned through the failure of the brakes to act while on an incline…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The inquest into the circumstances of the death of George Player, who was fatally injured through being run over by an empty coal-waggon at Carrington early…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miss Mary M'Mahon and Miss Katie Kiernan were driving in a buggy along Keller-road yesterday, when the horse took fright at a passing motor, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A travelling hawker, Thomas Corsan Bridges, 53, was killed on the Aberglasslyn-road, Rutherford, yesterday afternoon. Deceased was walking along the road…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Precautions taken aboard steamers for the safety of ships and their crews are never more stringent than on vessels carrying inflammable cargoes. Accidents occur rarely,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Austin Fitzpatrick, proprietor of Bloomfield Colliery, and a well-known and esteemed resident of Maitland district, was killed in William-street, East…
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