COUNTRY. Fatal Colliery Accident
WOLLONGONG, This Day. -- An inquest was held yesterday touching the death, of a lad named Geo. Ditchburn, aged 14 years, who was killed on Thursday through…
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A Railway Collision. Several Persons Injured. Rolling Stock Damaged
HOBART, Monday.—An accident of a somewhat serious character occurred on the main line on Saturday morning. The railway employes had arranged to celebrate their annual holiday by a…
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ALBURY, Saturday.—Captain Battye, Superintendent of the Police, received information at noon to-day that a man, supposed to be Daniel Driscoll, of Mahonga, has been found drowned in…
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HOBART, This Day. -- A train on the mainline on Saturday, which was taking a number of railway employees to a picnic at Lindisferne, ran into the Midlands…
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HOBART, Sunday.--A somewhat serious accident happened on the main line on Saturday morning about 10 o'clock. The railway employes had arranged to celebrate their annual…
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BROKEN HILL, Saturday.—Captain Eddy, of the Eaglehawk mine, has met with a severe accident. He was driving a buggy, when his pony suddenly became rather fractious and bolted…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accidents to Miners at Minmi. One Man Killed. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Newcastle
A fatal accident occurred at the Minmi colliery yesterday, whereby a miner named William Durrant lost his life. It appears that he had a horse attached to a skip, which was off its track,…
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AN accident, by which a little boy named Amos Clarke, five years old, met with in juries of a very serious nature, occurred on Saturday evening shortly before…
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THIS morning a man named Francis Parr, aged 45 years, residing at No. 34 Sussex-street, was bathing, when ho struck his bead against a rock, inflicting a painful…
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NEWCASTLE, This Day. -- At the inquest on the body of the youth named Durrant, who was killed at Mi[?]nn Pit by being crushed between skips, resulted in a…
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WOLLONGONG, This Day. -- An inquest w[?]s[?]eld yesterday touching the death of a [?]d named Geo. Ditchburn, aged 14 y[?] who was killed on Thursday through…
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Henry Miers, a boy 11 rears of age, residing with his parents in king-street, Newtown, was on Saturday last in the act of crossing the Newtown-road when he was knocked down…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A sensational accident happened on the Goulburn Valley line yesterday morning. A platelayer who was travelling along the line on a trolly did not…
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ALBURY, This Day. -- Daniel Driscoll, supposed to be identical with an old resident of this district, was found drowned in a waterhole at Luntevah, near Ger…
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Professor A. H. Johnson, of St. John's College, Oxford, was yesterday drowned by the upsetting of a punt on the Thames…
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The story of this collision is one of the most remarkable in ocean records. Both vessels were under full headway. The night had been dark and stormy; and it was…
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NEWCASTLE, Monday.—A little boy, named Riley, bad his toes cut off on Saturday. He was chasing a coal train, and when endeavoring to leap on to the guard's van he slipped, with the…
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BROKEN HILL, Monday.—A fataL accident happened at the Proprietary mine on Saturday to a trucker named Matthew Wm. Throup, a married man. Deceased fell down the pass in…
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A buggy accident of a somewhat serious nature occurred on the Randwick road shortly after midnight on Monday. While a veterinary surgeon named Daniel Maguire (60), residing in…
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A very painful accident happened to a boy named James Luke, on Monday afternoon. He had been shooting sparrows in the yard at his parents' residence, No. 202, Botany-street,…
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