Accidents
Aboat [?] clock, yesterday, a workman named Pizie, aged 25 years, was brought to the Infirmary by Mr. Mayney, suffering from injuries to chest, caused by a fall from some scrffolding at Paling's warehouse…
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Dynamite Experiment.—Fatal Accident
The. S. A. Advertiser, in reporting the results of some dynamite experiments, at one of the Adelaide quarries, says:—The last experiment had a most melancholy termination. A hole had been bored in the…
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On the 30th ultimo the police at Cooktown were informed that William Thompson had accidentlly been shot near Moylan's Grave on the Palmer road, about 25 miles from Cooktown. It appears that the…
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Mr. M'Elhone, in the Assembly on next Tuesday, is to move the this House will resolve itself into a committee of the whole, to consider of an address to the Governor, praying that his Excellency will be…
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A collision took place outside Sydney Heads this morning between the steamer Ballina, Captain Redford, and the barque Sylphide, Captain Pie, the former being from the McLeay River and…
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ON May 19 intelligence was received by the PostmasterGeneral by telegraph from Cape Horda of the total wreck of the brig Emily Smith, a well-known trader between Port Adelaide and Western Australia, which is said to have…
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The following evidence was given at an inquest on the body of the unfortunate man Griffiths, who reported in our telegraphic columns, was killed on the railway line. John Myers, engine-driver, deposed that…
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An English journal asks:—Could the Thetis and crew have had a much narrower escape [?] reported in letters from Malta, giving details of the disablement and rescue of the vessel?—When fallen in…
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The morning which gave the cheerful details of the boat race brought also (remarks an English journal) harrowing particulars of another of those express train accidents which have become go fearfully…
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A terrible and fatal accident took place on the Northern line, near Waratah, at about 7 o'clock, last night. A miner, named Griffiths, was in the act, apparently, of crossing the line, when a…
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THE following are the particulars of the Victorian railway accident, the inquest, on which resulted in a verdict of manslaughter against the overseer of the works:—The accident which took place on the Ararat…
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In 1874 the number of miners in Victoria was 46,512, and the number of accidents in that year was 296, 96 being killed and 245 injured, making a total of 335 killed and injured. In 1875 there…
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A painful sensation was caused at Stawell, Victoria, on Friday afternoon, when it became rumoured that Mr. James Grainger, who lately contested the election for Stawell against Mr. Woods, had lost his…
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The entombed colliers at the Troedyrhiw Colliery had not been extricated up to April 18, but although they had been shut up for seven days, it was felt that the release of the men was practically…
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A PRELIMINARY inquiry was instituted at the Marine Board Office, on Wednesday morning last, before Captains Hixson (president), Fairclough, Broomfield, M'Lean, and Watson, touching the circumstances attending the sinking…
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About half-past 10, this morning, a newspaper runner named Redding, while delivering papers at an omnibus in Pitt-street, was run over by one of the carts belonging to Mr. Yeoman, the painter. The…
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THE following are the particulars of the Victorian railway accident, the inquest on which resulted in a verdict of manslaughter against the overseer of the works:—The accident which took place on the Ararat…
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A COLLISION took place outside Sydney Heads on Saturday morning between tho steamer Ballina, Captain Bedford, and the barque Sylphide, Captain Pie, the former being from the Macleay River and…
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We regret to say that a fatal accident occurred at Goulburn railway-station this morning to a young man named John Lloyd. It appears that whilst removing his dog from the van, the door of which was…
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At Chester, America, May 22, the Saratoga, a large iron steamship which was to be launched at Roach's ship yard, (started from its blocking sooner than expected, killing and wounding many…
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