A Street Fatality. Death of a Woman. Sydney
A married woman named Jessie Wilkinson, who lived in Crown-street Sydney met her death In a tragle manner in pillstreet last night,…
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Accidents, 1908
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Machinery Accident
Harold Brinkworth, 20 years of age, son of Captain Brinkworth, tug master, of Newcastle, sustained fatal injuries while following his employment at…
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Mr. C. Hibble, district coroner, held an inquest at Minmi Courthouse, yesterday, into the death of the little girl, Margaret Charlotte Malone, who tiled on Sunday…
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James Bede Dwyer, night officer a Murrarund station, and William Gibson, who were arrested last Monday in connection with the railway accident…
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Sir,—As a member of the Miners' Accident Fund, and having met with an accident at the Lymington Colliery on the 2nd instant, I should like to know what…
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Mr. C. Hibble, district coroner, with a jury of six, held an inquest yesterday at Homesville into the circumstances attendant upon the death of Mr. David…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Hexham Fatality. Verdict of the Jury
At the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday morning, Mr. C. Hibble, district cor[?]ner, held an inquest concerning the death of Harold Birnkworth, who died in the…
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LONDON, Thursday.—A train containing pilgrims and a goods train come into collision at Rocca Pietra,, Italy…
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The steamer Vermont left the Short-street wharf, Birsbane, yesterday afternoon for Newcastle. She had only proceeded a few , hundred yards when, on…
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At the Eveleigh railway workshops this afternoon a quantity of scrap iron which was placed in a cage was being raised by means of a crane, for the purpose of…
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The Union liner Mokoia, which was due on Friday evening, did not arrive until yesterday morning. It appears that on the second day out…
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A sensational accident occurred on the Great Northern line, near the East Greta Function, on Saturday morning, when two sailors, Leslie Eckert and Peter…
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Mr. C. Hibble, the district coroner held an inquest yesterday into the death of Norah May Smith, aged 13 months, who died at her parents' residence,…
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A shocking accident occurred at Cab-bagetree Hay at about a quarter to four o'clock yesterday afternoon, through the explosion Of a quantity or condemned…
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A man named William Lanham, while engaged in repairing some fencing on the river bank at Bolwarra Heights, on Saturday afternoon, was struck on the side…
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The remains of the man who was run over and killed by the Brisbane express near Wickkham on Monday night were yesterday identified as those of John…
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An accident occurred at the railway workshops at Eveleigh this morning. A gang of employees at the sheds were engaged in lifting an iron coal bunker,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murrurundi Accident. Trial of Ex-railway Officers. Murrurundi
The hearing of the charge against William Gibson and James Bede Dwyer, of negligently omitting to see that the up home signal was at danger on April 17,…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—Fifty fishing scats have been wrecked in a storm off Kagishima, Japan, and 350 of the pen were drowned…
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The inquest concerning the death of John Patrick Sandford, who was killed on the railway at Wickham on Monday night, was held yesterday at the Newcastle…
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