Accidental Explosion in a Mine. One Man Killed, Another Injured. (By Telegraph.)
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 January 1889 · page 6
MELBOURNE, Thursday.--A fatal accident occurred yesterday at the Pearl Company's mine Sandharat. A keg of powder exploded accidentally during a blast, injuring two miners…
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Evening News · Friday 4 January 1889 · page 5
TENTERFIELD, Thursday.-Thomas Bounds, a fettler on the railway line, accompanied by his wife, were in town on Tuesday at the Caledonian games. They left between. 10 and 11 for home…
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Evening News · Friday 4 January 1889 · page 5
NEWCASTLE, Thursday.-Miss Golding, of Newcastle, while jumping out of a buggy her dress caught in a wheel, and falling to the ground, she had one of her arms broken…
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Evening News · Friday 4 January 1889 · page 6
A serious accident happened at Messrs. Geddes and Co.'s Spring Vale Woolworks, Botany, on Thursday, by which two men named George Wilkins, 34, engine-driver, residing at No. 4…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Accident to the Czar's Train. a Deliberate Plot. the Work of Nihilists. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, Jan. 2
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 January 1889 · page 5
It has been discovered that the accident which occurred to the Czar's train, on the Azoff railway, in which the Czar narrowly escaped death, was a deliberate plot on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Accident at Sandhurst. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 January 1889 · page 5
Yesterday morning James Mattcott and Alex. Hobson, miners at the Pearl mine, Sandhurst, were engaged in charging a hole, having a [?]og of powder beside them. While trying an old piece of fuse…
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The Australian Star · Friday 4 January 1889 · page 3
AN engine-driver named George Wilkins, aged 34 years, was engaged at Gehde's woolworks, Botany, yesterday afternoon, erecting some new pumping machinery on the…
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The Australian Star · Friday 4 January 1889 · page 5
MELBOURNE, This Day.--A miner named James Mattcott was killed at an explosion in the Pearl Mine, Sandhurst, yesterday, and his mate, Alex. Hobson, was very…
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The Australian Star · Friday 4 January 1889 · page 5
NEWCASTLE, This Day.-- The wife of Alderman Butts, of Carrington, was using kerosene in lighting a fire on New Year's Day, and on opening the stove she applied…
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The Australian Star · Friday 4 January 1889 · page 5
BATHURST, This Day.-- A man named Bowket has been received into the Bathurst Hospital suffering from a much lacerated leg, received through becoming…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 January 1889 · page 5
MELBOURNE, Thursday.--A fatal accident occurred this morning on the St. Kilda ram line. A tram car coming towards Melbourne ran into a nightcart proceeding in the same…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nihilism in Russia. the Accident to the Czar's Train. an Inquiry to Be Held
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 January 1889 · page 5
LONDON, Wednesday.--A Russian Judge has been appointed to hold an inquiry into the accident which occurred to the Czar's train in October, by which the Czar was…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 January 1889 · page 10
MELBOURNE, Dec. 28.—The body of a young man named Bass, who was drowned in Kenny's Baths on Boxing Day, has been recovered. MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A sad case of drowning…
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Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 5 January 1889 · page 4
It is very sad to relate that on New Year's Day two fine Boys met with their death by drowning. One was the case of a lad, William Button, 13 years old, who resided…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Shocking Fatality. Accidentally Shot Dead
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 January 1889 · page 17
NEWCASTLE, Monday.—On Saturday night a young man named William Day, 19 years of age, employed at Stockton Colliery as a water-bailer, met with a frightful gun accident, causing…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 January 1889 · page 5
WILCANNIA, Friday.--A case of drowning has just occurred here. A lad, six years of age a son of Mr. Porter, who has charge of the steamer Florence Annie, while his parents were…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 January 1889 · page 10
MELBOUBNE, Tuesday.—This morning the body of Richard Grace, one of the victims of the Shaw's Reef mining accident at Maryborough, was recovered at the 325ft level. The body had been…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 5 January 1889 · page 14
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal
Shortly after midnight on Tuesday, the steamer Hauroto, from Fiji, while coming up-the bay, ran into the chip King Arthur, anchored in the outer anchorage a short distance north and east of…
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The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 5 January 1889 · page 3
ON Sunday last, Mr. J.E. Bowden held an inquest at the parramatta District Hospital reached the death of a man, [?] known who was found dead in a [?]…
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