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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1896

3,893 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 195

The Gamecock-leveret Collision. Marine Board Inquiry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 January 1896 · page 3

Yesterday afternoon the Marine Board commenced an inquiry into the circumstances connected with the collision between the tug Gamecock and the harbour steamer Loveret, which occurred on 28th…

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The Leveret-gamecock Collision. Marine Board Inquiry

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1896 · page 3

The Marine Board held an inquiry yesterday afternoon into the circumstances surrounding the collision between the tugs Gamecock and Leveret, which took place on Saturday…

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The Bond Fatality. Death of a Workman. The Coroner's Inquest

The Australian Star · Tuesday 7 January 1896 · page 6

The inquest into the death of Joseph Byrne, killed at the Australian Bond on Friday, was continued to-day. The following is the report continued from page 5 :--…

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A Shocking Fatality. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Orange

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 January 1896 · page 6

Mr. Thomas [?] master butcher, was killed [?]. He was at the slaughter yards, and while on horseback yarding cattle a bullock rushed at his horsr, which fell. Mr. Hamer was…

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Macleay News. Trial Bay Boating Fatality. The New Taxation. Landlords Raising the Rents. KEMPSEY

The Australian Star · Tuesday 7 January 1896 · page 3

Captain Grant, of the dredge Fitzroy accompanied by the night watchman, Mr. Gunner, a Mr. Brown and two boys, one a son of Captain Grant, aged 9, the other son…

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The Coogee Fatality. a Nyngan Storekeopep's Death. The Coroner's Inquest. The Fishermen's Evidence --Deceased Never Sank-- Sad Ending to a Boating Excursion

The Australian Star · Tuesday 7 January 1896 · page 3

An inquest was held at the South Sydney Morgue yesterday on Arthur T. Bleakley, storekeeper, of Nyngan, who was drowned at Coogee yesterday. Deceased…

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Accident near Orange. a Grazier Killed

Evening News · Tuesday 7 January 1896 · page 7

ORANGE, Monday.—Thomas Hamer, a grazier and butcher, well-known throughout this and surrounding districts, was killed this afternoon by his horse falling on him and crushing his…

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A Litt Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 7 January 1896 · page 4

A very narrow escape from fatal Injury experienced by Augustus willson, of Opal-street, Paddington, and Percy Fidden, of Tudor-street, Surry Hills, two bwarehousemen engaged at 263…

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Shocking Railway Accident

The Australian Star · Tuesday 7 January 1896 · page 5

A railway accident of a most serious character has occurred in the Transvaal. The mail train from Johannesburg to Durban was derailed at…

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The Fatal Accident at a Bond. Two Men Killed by a Package of Paper. Inadequate Lowering Appaapparatus

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1896 · page 3

The inquest on the body of the carter Joseph Byrne, who died early on Saturday morning from injuries sustained through being struck by a package of paper which…

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Accident to a Mail Train

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1896 · page 5

LONDON, Monday, 1 p.m,--The mail train proceeding from Johannesburg to Durban has been derailed and wrecked at Dannhausen; 25 of those on the…

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Fatal Accident at Orange

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1896 · page 6

ORANGE, Monday.--A butcher named Thomas Hanie met with a sudden death to-day. He was yarding a bullock, and in trying to head it his horse fell upon…

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Narrow Escape From Drowning. Liverpool

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1896 · page 5

Yesterday afternoon a bttle girl, daughter of Mr. Collings, of the Warwick Farm Hotel, while playing on a plank which projects over the fresh water of George's River, near the Holdsworthy Bridge,…

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Accident at Mort's Dock. a Laborer Injured

Evening News · Wednesday 8 January 1896 · page 5

A laborer named George Jackson, residing in Kent-street, city, met with a painful accident at Mort's Dock, Balmain, yesterday. While at work there a plank fell from the scaffolding…

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A Laborer injured. Accident at a Wharf

Evening News · Wednesday 8 January 1896 · page 2

A laborer named George Cooper, 38, residing at Druitt-street, was engaged unloading a vessel at Messrs. Howard Smith and Sous' wharf today, when a number of bags of chaff, which were…

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Marine Board. Leveret-Gamecock Collision

Evening News · Wednesday 8 January 1896 · page 6

The Marine Board to-day resumed its inquiry into the collision between the tugs Leveret and Gamecock, that took place off Sydney Heads on the 28th ultimo. Captain F. Hickson, R.N.,…

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The Leveret-gamecock Collision. Marine Board Inquiry

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1896 · page 3

The Marine Board continued its inquiry yesterday into the circumstances surrounding the collision between the tugs Gamecock and Leveret, which took place on Saturday…

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The Gamecock-leveret Collision. the Marine Board Inquiry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1896 · page 3

Yesterday morning the Marine Board resumed their inquiry into the circumstances connected with the collision between the tug Gamecock and the harbour steamer Leveret, which occurred on 28th…

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Marine Board. Leveret-Gamecock Collision. (Continued from page 6.)

Evening News · Wednesday 8 January 1896 · page 5

William White, superintending engineer for Messrs. J. and A. Brown, owners of the Gamecock, said she was a strongly-built vessel, and was constructed under his supervision. He remembered her running…

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The Collision. Gamecock and Leveret. Marine Board Inquiry To-Day's Evidence

The Australian Star · Wednesday 8 January 1896 · page 5

The Gamecock-Leveret collision on December 28 near Sydney Heads was further considered by the Marine Board to-day. Mr. W. L. Thompson (Messrs…

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