Found Drowned
AS a boy named Robert Hearn, residing with his parents in Green's Lane, Moore Park, was going round the lagoon in Moore Park yesterday, he saw the body of a woman (whose name is unknown) floating in the…
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Coroner's Court. This Day. Found Drowned
The City Coroner this morning held an inquest at the Benevolent Asylum. Pitt-street south, concerning the death of a woman (name unknown), whose body was found in a waterhole or lagoon on Moore Park, at the…
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A man named Norris, belonging to the barque Cicero, lying at Smith's Wharf, fell down the hold of the vessel this morning, fracturing his skull and sustaining other serious injuries. He was conveyed to…
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A SHOCKING accident occurred on Monday night on the railway line, at present in course of construction by Messrs. Overend and Robb, between Ararat and Hamilton. The ballast engine was, the Advertiser reports,…
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On Wednesday week a young man, named George Chapman, who was working pine in the scrub for a Mr. Weathers, near Lagoon Grass, Lismore, seeing an iguana running by a log, which was partly on fire,…
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A dreadful accident occurred on September 7, at Warrington. Mr. Eaton, of Warrington, is constructing a sewer for the rural sanitary authorities About half-past 10, three mea were engaged…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Fatal. Accident to an Aeronaut. St. Louis, Mo., September 24,1876
A terrible accident happened yesterday to George Winthrop, an aeronaut nt Paxton, Ill. He was making an ascension in a hot air balloon, when, at an altitude of 500 feet, the air ship burst with a…
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About 3 p.m. the 9th instant the body of a man whose name is at present unknown, was found by Robert M'Donald and George M'Bride, residing at Peacock's Point. Balmain, in the water between Erekine-street…
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A shocking accident occurred the other night at the cooperage of Messrs. Finzel, sugar refiners, situated in Meadow-street, Bristol. About 200 workmen are employed in turning out between…
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Yesterday afternoon the Coroner held an inquest at the Observer Tavern, touching the death of a man, whose name is unknown. George M'Bride, boilermaker, of Peacock's Point, Balmain, deposed that, on…
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We learn from the Singleton Argus that Mr Alexander Bowman, J.P., the Mayor, met with a lucky escape from serious injury on Tuesday evening last, owing to the axle of his buggy snapping whilst being…
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A shocking accident (says the Home News) occurred the other night at the cooperage of Messrs. Finzel, suger refiners, situated in Meadow-street, Bristol. About 200 workmen are employed in turning out…
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The local newspaper at Bourke has to record the death of Master Rauell Daubiney Barton, whose parents reside at [?] Station. It appears that the child was sitting on the back of a dray, on…
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A frightful accident, reports the Uralla Times, happened at Bendemeer on the afternoon of Wednesday week, to a boy named C. Rixon, son of Mr. F. Rixen, living near Uralla, which, after causing excruciating…
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A very sad and fatal accident is reported by the Mansfield Guardian. On Sunday last Mr. Kennedy, farmer, of Hayfield, placed his little boy upon his horse whilst he tightened up the girths, when the animal…
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A shocking accident (says the Home News) occurred the other night at the cooperage of Messrs. Finzel, sugar refiners, situated in Meadow-street, Bristol. About 200 workmen are employed in turning out…
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A shocking accident occurred the other night at the cooperage of Messrs. Finzel, sugar refiners, situated in Meadow-street, Bristol. About 200 workmen are employed in turning out between…
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A SHOCKING accident occurred on Monday night on the railway line, at present in course of construction by Messrs. Overend and Robb, between Ararat and Hamilton. The ballast engine was, the Advertiser reports,…
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On Friday evening, as it appears from the [?] one of the men employed in Mr. Henry [?] flour mill, [?] street. West Maitland, was [?] ill, and Mr. Hough went to a small brandy [?]…
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The Shoalhaven News states that a severe and rather singular accident has occured at the woolshed of Messrs. Rankin Brothers, Bombowles. A sheep struggling in the hands of a shearer suddenly kicked…
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