Unpleasant Deaths

[Skoosh]

"Lucky White Heather!"

Skoosh.

[conahy calling]

See 2nd paragraph on the link
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=PBH18871006.2.24

Explains how W C Lysaght caught diphteria and died.

[Noy1818]

This is a newspaper article regarding the death of my 3rd  great uncle. He had only been in Australia for about a year. What a horrible way to go.

(Saturday September 17th, 1870)
FRIGHTFUL CASUALTY ON THE NEW ROAD

An accident which is apprehended must terminate fatally, happened yesterday morning to a young man named William Henry Trembath. He was engaged chopping some firewood for Mr Richard Davis who occupies a house on the sideling track leading out of the township, when a stone of several pounds weight, which it is believed had been uprooted by some swine on the slaughter-yard hill above him, came bounding down the precipitous sideling with fearful velocity, gathering impetus as it proceeded, and struck him on the right side of the head, fracturing the skull and actually forcing the fragments of the bone into the brain. The sufferer was instantly taken into the dwelling, while a messenger was speedily despatched for Dr McDonald. The doctor arrived with commendable promptitude, and upon proceeding to examine the patient found the scalp terribly torn, and the skull literally battered in, indeed with the aid of his surgical instruments he succeeded in removing several particles of bone varying from the size of a shilling downwards, which had been embedded nearly an inch deep in the convolutions of the brain, and yet marvelous to relate, the unfortunate sufferer although totally insensible to pain retained his consciousness throughout the whole operation.
Upon enquiry at a late hour last night, we learned that Trembath had sunk into a comatose state.

[Finley 1]

just had to stop reading this one half way through the pages... oh dear...

xin 

[Nanna52]

My great uncle, 10 August 1885.

A miner named  George James, who was working in the shaft of the 'Transit Company, Newtown, was killed yesterday afternoon by the dummy of the cage falling upon him and precipitating him to the bottom.  When picked up he was alive, but he died shortly afterwards.

[bikermickau]

One I found last week
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article149180087
A LAD'S DEATH.
Some gruesome particulars were com-
municated to-day to the City Coroner
when he held an inquest on the body of
the poor lad Daniel O'Sullivan, who was
killed at Moore's timber yards on Tues-
day.. It may be remembered that he
climbed to an overhead beam to adjust
a belt on a moving wheel, and must have
slipped, as when next seen was being 
whirled round and round the wheel. 
To-day it was stated that every revo-
lution he was dashed against some
planking, and not only were both legs
and arms torn off, but portions of his
body were thrown over 40ft. away.
Sullivan's mother said the lad was
not subject to fits, and was in good
health and spirits when he left home in
the morning for his work. The Coroner
found that death was due to injuries sus-
tained by deceased being caught in the
belting and held, and that no blame at 
tached to anyone.

[groom]

They certainly went into graphic details in those days didn't they!

[GenesA]

I have man on my mother's side who was an widower and had become a bit of an alcoholic after his wife's death. His eighteen year old daughter found him dead in the kitchen after he had choked on his own vomit. Must have been awful for the daughter!

I also have a Mr Turner who was killed by his own cart but didn't die until a week later. The poor man must have suffered  he was only in his 30s.

[coombs]

Several of my rellies died from phthisis, and the death cert says "3 years" or 4 years.