Peculiar Accident
Evening News · Tuesday 3 October 1876 · page 2
A boy named William Logan, aged 16 years, residing at 221, Glarence-street, when at a picnic at Cremorno yesterday morning, and while kicking a ball, fell down on the ground and fractured his left arm. He…
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Evening News · Tuesday 3 October 1876 · page 3
Alabo iring man, named Alexander Stewart, was found so ne few weeks ago by constable Skilbeck, of South Grafton, lying at the base of a tree where a fire had been burning. On looking at Stewart, reports the…
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Evening News · Wednesday 4 October 1876 · page 2
An extraordinary accident has occurred in the Union Beach mine, Coromandel, New Zealand, which is flooded out through a defect in the pumping gear, throwing 60 men out of emple[?]yment. A man named…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Accident on Board the Cyelops
Evening News · Wednesday 4 October 1876 · page 2
An inquest into the caused death of Benjamin Hagan, late of the steamer Cyclops, which occurred at Newcastle on Tuesday, before the District Coroner, when, according to the Pilot, John Williams deposed:…
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Evening News · Friday 6 October 1876 · page 2
A man named William Bussey was brought to [?] at the Exchange [?]…
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Evening News · Friday 6 October 1876 · page 2
A man named William Lambert, aged 25 years, residing at West Maitland, was brought to the Infirmary this morning, suffering from severe burns to the forepart of his head. About a fortnight ago Lambert…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 October 1876 · page 3
We have received some particulars of the collision between the Raleigh and the Monarch on the night of the 27th ultimo, in the Mediterranean. The fleet were st[?]aming in three lines in close order, the Hercules, 16, iron…
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Evening News · Thursday 12 October 1876 · page 2
Captain John Byron Smith, of the ketch Dolly Warsurley, trading to Brisbane Water, had the three first fingers and thumb of his right hand blown off the middle joints by an expl[?]eion of dynamite powder at…
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Evening News · Thursday 12 October 1876 · page 2
About half-past 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, a man named James Kennedy, a shipwright, while employed on board the City of Grafton, at Mort's Deck, Balmain, fell a distance of 20 feet off a stage, on which…
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Evening News · Friday 13 October 1876 · page 2
A correspondent furnishes us with additional and correct particulars of the accident which occurred at Mort's Dock yesterday, to a person named Kennedy, employed on the City of Grafton. The man, by his…
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Evening News · Friday 13 October 1876 · page 3
A fearful railway accident occurred on August 7 at midnight, between Radstock Wellow, on the Bath and Evercreech branch of the Somerset and Dorset Railway. The line is a single one, worked…
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Evening News · Friday 13 October 1876 · page 2
A boy named Thomas Purcell, aged 9 years, received a fractured arm, yesterday afternoon, when skylarking with another boy while returning from school. Purcell, when wrestling with a boy, fell down and the…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 October 1876 · page 4
By the steamet from Riverhead Captain William M'Donald and two of the crow of the above schooner arrived in Auckland, and reported her loss at Kaipara Heads on the 30th September, with the loss of the mate, John Lynn. The Strathnaver is a schooner…
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Evening News · Monday 16 October 1876 · page 2
A man named Patrick Sweetman, aged 32 years, employed at Field's butcher shop, at the Haymarket, while using a chopper cutting some bony meat, cut his thumb very badly. His injuries were dressed at the…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 October 1876 · page 3
A fatal collision took place on the night of August 7th on the 8 merset and Dorset Railway at Radstock, a station about ten miles from Bath. The line, which is leased by the Midland Railway Company, is a single…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 October 1876 · page 2
The inquest on the bodies of the men killed in the accident to the Flying Dutchman, near Bristol, on July 27, has ended in a strong censure of the responsible officers. The jury find that the cause of the…
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Evening News · Wednesday 18 October 1876 · page 2
On Friday, the 6th instant, while the ballast van heavily laden, was descending from the tunnel to Doughboy Hollow, on the railway extension near Mururundic, the train acquired such a speed from the steep…
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Evening News · Thursday 19 October 1876 · page 2
About four o'clock yesterday afternoon a little boy named Robert Thomas Monte, son of Elizabeth and Joseph Abate, of Dick-street, Balmain, was found browned in a well on the premises of Richard Rylote…
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Evening News · Thursday 19 October 1876 · page 2
The following statement, given in the evidence Melbourne on the 14th, by Mr. Omarr Kingaley, questrian manager at Wilsons circus, in reference the death of the jockey, George Blackburn, explain…
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Evening News · Friday 20 October 1876 · page 2
Shortly before two o'clock yesterday afternoon, some boys connected with the Randwick [?] Children's Asylum proceeded to a quarry [?] Municipal Council of Randwick, and situated in the…
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