Fatal Mining Accident at Gympie
A profound sensation was caused amongst this community on Wednesday afternoon und evening (says the GYMPIE TIMES)by the report that another fatal accident had occurred, by which two…
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The Fatal Mining Accidents at Gympie. (From the Correspondent of the Brisbane Courier.)
YOUR readers are doubtless startled at the succession or fatal mining accidents that have occurred during the last fewdays. Not only has a gloom been cast over the entire community, but a very "terror" has been instilled into the…
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Yesterday afternoon there was saved from drowning in the lagoon at Bondi a young lad of about eight or ten years of age. It appears that a hat belonging to one of his companies had blown or been…
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Between 11 And 12 o'clock on New Year's morning, 2 man named William Reid was accidentally drowned whilst bathing at Manly Beach. It appears that Reid, with eight others, proceeded to Manly…
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On Saturday afternoon a collision occurred on the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay United Railway at the entrance to the Elizabeth-street station; which very nearly involved a loss of life. As the seven…
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A night watchman, named Class Egerstein, fell from a cart to-day, and fractured his skull, and is since dead. — Charles Clarke, a news vendor at Brunswick, fell from his horse, and fractured…
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About 10 o'clock last night, on intent named Henry Herbert Smith, aged four months,' died sunddenly at his parents' residence on the Newtown-road. It appears that deocased was being Buried by a girl…
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A rattier nasty accident occurred on Wednesday (says the NEWCASTLE HERALD) as the 11.30. train was proceeding between Hexham and Woodford platform. A man named Cozens, acting as fireman on the…
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The Coroner yesterday afternoon, at the Observer Tavern, Lower George-street, held an inquest touching the death of a sailor named Henry Millian, who fell overboard from the steamer City of Brisbane…
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A gatekeeper named Felix Daniel, on the Gippsland Railway, at the Tank Gate, was caught by the up train at five o'clock this Afternoon, while…
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BRISBANE, Saturday, 10.5 a.m.—Two youths named Arthur and Thomas Walker were drowned at Ipswich yesterday evening.— There was another heavy thunderstorm at St…
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A PROFOUND sensation was caused amongst this community on Wednesday afternoon and evening (says the GYMPIE TIMES) by the report that another fatal accident had occurred, by which two…
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Harrisonburg, Va., November 18, 1877.—A serious disaster occurred near Cowan's station, nine and a quarter miles below Harrisonburg, on the Lower Valley Branch of the Baltimore and…
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TOWNSVILLE, Monday 11 p.m.—An occidental poisoning Case of a painful nature has occurred at Cairns. A female child, two years old, named Nicholls, partook of some [?]that had…
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Between two and three o'clock yesterday afternoon a boy named aller Charles Barnett, aged 10 years, was drowned while bathing in a water hole at Druitt's Town, Liverpool-road. Water police…
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On Friday, January 3, a little before four o'clock (reports the LESW[?]) two little boys, named Arthur and Thomas Walker, aged respectively seven and nine years, went down to the river to bathe,…
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Mr. F. Lloyd, a well-known resident of the Grenfell and Blind district has met with an accident near Marsden's that ter[?] fatally. The dece[?]d who was in the prime of life, had been recently…
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Harrisonburg, Va., November 18, 1877.—A serious disaster occurred near Cowan's station, nine and a quarter miles below Harrisonburg, on the Lower Valley Branch of the Baltimore and…
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A correspondent at Trunkey Creek writes as follows:—"January 12,—I am glad to be able to state that Trunkey Creek is likely to rise again. Mr. Edward Bennette is do at his best to start No. 7 Cromme's…
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It was announced by advertisement that Professor Rufus Gibbon Wells, the aeronaut, would, on Saturday night, in the pavilion in the Domain, "inflate, exhibit, illumine, and explain his mammoth…
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