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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
16 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers
A terrible accident occurred at the Dry Dock, Balmain, between ten and eleven o'clock yesterday morning, when three persons—Joseph Porter, John Gordon, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A young lady, Miss Julia Eden, daughter of Mr. Eden, master of the Cathedral School, hod a narrow escape from being drowned while bathing on the 24th of last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The state of public feeling on the stations at the Peninsular and throughout the Port can scarcely be described, for though on several previous occasions accidents have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fatal accident took place at the B pit, Wallsend, on the 2Oth ultimo. A boy named Elliott, about twelve years of age, was assisting at the waggons under the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fight took place a short time ago between two Welsh miners, at Waratah, when one of them got the other down, bit his nose off, and swallowed it. The savage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The mail steamer Rangatira arrived at Adelaide at 11 o'clock this morning.The Queen and Royal Family are in good health The dissolution of Parliament was expected to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquest was held on Wednesday, the 2nd of August, at Holy Cottage, Holy Flat (a locality situated near Triaba, about ten miles beyond wallsend, in the direction nf Lake Macquarie). on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A serious accident happened to a miner named Gibson, while working in the A.A. Company's No. 2. Pit, on the 18th of last month. He was in a bore on what is called…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tredegar, Saturday, June 24.-One of the most lamentable and frightful colliery explosions that have ever happened in South Wales occurred at the New Bedwellty pit…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A collision took place in the harbour on Thursday morning, the circumstances connected with which, although it has been the cause of serious damage to two vessels (one of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About nine o'clock on Saturday morning, Captain Duff, harbour-master at Glenelg, having heard that a ship was aground near the rocks at Marino…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →James Stewart, carpenter of the ship British Peer, met his death By drowning early on the morning of Saturday, the 24th ult. He had been spending the Sunday night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The District Coroner, Dr. R. C. Knaggs, held an inquest at Mr. E. Jones's, the General Washington Hotel, Stockton, on the 23rd ultimo, on the body of an aboringinal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Tuesday last, a son of Captain Clark's— Connolly of Hunter-street—met with an accident, from the effects of which he is slowly recovering It appears that Master George Clark was walking…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A most appalling colliery catastrophe, by which eight men and boys were deprived of life with only a few seconds warning, occurred late on Tuesday afternoon, at the California…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A man named George David Wrightson, stoker on the Great Northern Railway, had a most providential escape from death on the railway, at Honeysuckle Point, on the…
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