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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1857

7 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers

Instructions As to the Restoration of Persons Apparently Drowned

Northern Times · Saturday 24 January 1857 · page 4

The frequent recurrence, of late of deaths by drowning, after the very brief periods of numersion, seems to call for the publication of some simple and explicit instructions on the treatment of persons seemingly dead…

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Canada. Frightful Railway Accident.—from Eighty to Ninety Persons Killed. We extract the subjoined harrowing account from the Toronto Globe, March 12.—

Northern Times · Saturday 20 June 1857 · page 4

We shall not attempt to describe the deep sensation which was excited last night among all classes, when the fearful intelligence ran through the city that an accident had happened on the Toronto and Hamilton Railway…

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Dreadful Accidents

Northern Times · Saturday 18 July 1857 · page 4

A most Berne[?]e accident happened on the London and North western Railway, near the station at Preston. A woman, named Jane Waddington, wife of a blacksmith, was returning home with some red iron under…

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Collision' at Sea. Sinking of a Melbourne Steamer. Loss of Thirty-one Lives

Northern Times · Wednesday 2 September 1857 · page 2

We extract from the Melbourne papers the particulars of another melancholy disaster at sea, which occurred on the night of Monday last. The following is from the Age…

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Colonial Intelligence. Victoria. the Late Ffarful Collision

Northern Times · Saturday 5 September 1857 · page 2

The inquiry into the circumstance Which led to the loss of the Champion has been concluded by the Victiria Navigation Board, but the question is not set at rest. A very great deal of excitement prevails to have this da…

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Poetry. Ophelia. "Drowned! drowned! drowned!"—SH[?]

Northern Times · Wednesday 9 September 1857 · page 4

Yere—where didde manyo a stay[?]ye [?]uply[?] hys [?]hedde Adowne a purlynge brooke. In an unfrequented nooke…

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Serious Accident on the Geelong Railway

Northern Times · Saturday 3 October 1857 · page 2

The train which [?] Melbourne at eight a.m. had arrived opposite the you Yang Mountains, about twelve miles from Geelong, when some of the passengers noticed something wrong and immediately after the train was seen to be off the rails. This took place…

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