Another Post-Office Fatality
Evening News · Wednesday 10 June 1885 · page 4
At 2 a.m. to-day Thomas Cunningham, 24 years of age, a carpenter, died in the Sydney Hospital, from injuries received by a fall at the General Post Office yesterday. When he was admitted be was found to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident to a Doctor. NEWCASTLE
Evening News · Wednesday 10 June 1885 · page 6
Dr. Beeston while riding to-day met with an accident, which resulted in a fracture of the leg. The injury was successfully treated by his partner, Dr. Ashe, who was himself thrown from his horse…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accidental Death. MAITLAND
Evening News · Wednesday 10 June 1885 · page 6
A man named Bernard O'Neill a quarryman residing at Two Mile Creek, near East Maitland, lost his life by falling into an old quarry at One Mile Creek on Friday night. It appears that the…
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The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 June 1885 · page 5
COBAR, Tuesday.---A man named John When was accidentally killed by a fall of rock in the mine to-day…
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The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 June 1885 · page 5
A man named Patrick She[?]dy, by occupation a drayman, and residing at Waverley, met with an accident yesterday morning which terminated fatally. It is stated that he was driving a c[?]rt,…
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The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 June 1885 · page 5
Following close upon the recent terrible and fatal accident at the new Post-office Buildings in course of erection in Pitt a [?]d[?]rge Streets, another accident of a sem[?,,] r, though…
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The Cumberland Mercury · Wednesday 10 June 1885 · page 3
A VERY serious accident happened about 8 o’ clock on Friday evening lust to a man named Edward Robinson, a groom in the employ of Mr. Fitz A. Boyd, of Springfield House…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Second Post-office Fatality. Verdict of Accidental Death
Evening News · Thursday 11 June 1885 · page 4
The City Coroner held an inquest in the Assembly Hotel to-day, on the body of Thomas Edward Cunningham, who died in the Sydney Hospital on Wednesday, from injuries received at the General…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Supposed Fatality at Sea. (By Telegraph.)
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 June 1885 · page 5
MELBOURNE, Wednesday,---Captain Patten, of the fishing cotter Eclipse, reports that on Sunday evening. May 31, when the Eclipse, Swallow, and Flirt, fishing cotters, were anchored off the north…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Railway Accident. BRISBANE
Evening News · Thursday 11 June 1885 · page 6
A guard named Buckley, on the South-Western railway at Murphy's Creek, was engaged in shunting on Monday when he got his left foot clasped by check rails which he had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Recent Accident at Granville. To the Editor
Evening News · Thursday 11 June 1885 · page 4
Sir,—Referring to a report in yo[?] valuable paper of last Monday night of an accident that happened to my groom at Granville station, I would ask you to call attention to the dangerous and [?] state…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Recent Fatal Accident at the Post-office
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 June 1885 · page 5
Messrs M'Credie Bros., the well-known builders, have forwarded us the following letter for publication "We have much pleasure in certifying that the Accident Indemnity Company of 19…
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Evening News · Friday 12 June 1885 · page 3
Messrs. M'Credie Bros., builders, write: We have much pleasure, in certifying that the Accident Indemnity Company, 19, Macquarie-place, Sydney, has promptly paid the sum of £468, in settlement of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accident on Board the Barque Woodbine. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Newcastle
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 June 1885 · page 8
While the barque Woodbine was being loaded at No. 3 crane with a cargo of the Burwood Company's coal, for Sydney, this morning, a serious disaster occured. Three of the ordinary wooden waggons bad been discharged into…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 12 June 1885 · page 5
NEWCASTLE, Thursday. -- Shortly after 10 o'clock this morning a mishap occurred with No. 3 steam crane, which might have retailed in the lose of six lives. The barque Woodbine was being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coroner's Inquest. the Fatal Accident at the Post Office
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 12 June 1885 · page 7
Mr Shiell, the city coroner, held an inquest at the Assembly Hotel, Hunter-steest, yesterday, relative to the death of the unfortunate man Thos. Edgar Cunningham, who sustained inch serious…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fatality in Candelo. CANDELO
Evening News · Saturday 13 June 1885 · page 6
A sad accident happened yesterday afternoon on the Kameruka Estate, and resulted in the death of Mr. H. Wren, who was thrown from his horse in a small paddock near his residence. Two…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wreck of the Cahors. Latest Particulars. the Second Officer Drowned. Terrible Scenes
Evening News · Saturday 13 June 1885 · page 5
The steamer Burwah, Captain South, with the shipwrecked passengers from the unfortunate steamer Canon, arrived at Brisbane at 8 a.m. on Friday. A number of telegrams forwarded to us on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Cahors Disaster. the Second Officer Drowned. an Exciting Scene Among the Passengers. [By Telegraph.]
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 June 1885 · page 5
CLARENCE HEADS, Friday. -- The steamer Dione went out this morning to the wreck. A heavy sea struck her near the bar and washed one men off. There is no sign of him, and it is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatality at Newcastle
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 June 1885 · page 8
NEWCASTLE. Sunday,--The body of James Lonsdale the fireman of the steamer Yeoman was fined floating in the harbour yesterday morning by a water man named Williams The deceased was…
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