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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
49 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 3
The melancholy accident to young King, recorded in Wednesday Chronicle, has terminated, fatally—a result which was feared from the first. As intimated in our notice on Wednesday, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Intelligence has just reached town that a most frightful accident occurred at Minmi, on New Year's Eve. The facts are these:âA poor old woman, named Moss, took a lighted candle into a room…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The most serious railway collision that has lately happened on our railways, occurred this morning, at about nine o'clock, at the Newtown Railway Station. The passenger train, due in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Friday last, the 3rd inst., a very sad accident happened in this locality, resulting, I am sorry to say, in the almost instantaneous death of a fine lad, named Joseph Watson, a boy of some twelve or…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another distressing boat accident, resulting in the death of two men, named Edward Bunn and Archibald Hill, happened on Saturday night last, by the upsetting of a boat in the harbour during the heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of those distressing and terrible casualties, occurring from time to time on railways— which seem, in some inexplicable manner, suddenly to defeat every wise precaution that can be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The melancholy accident which occurred in the Lambton colliery, on Tuesday last, to a [?] named William Adamson, terminated fatally in the evening of the same day about eight o'clock. As…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Again it is our painful duty to record loss of life by the upsetting of a boat in the harbour. The accident in question occurred on Sunday morning last, between the hours of ten and eleven…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquest was held at the Market Wharf Inn, on Friday, before J. R. Pierce, Esq., Coroner of the district, and a jury of six, on the body of Richard Partridge, who came by his death by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquest wins held at Rouse's Hotel, on Saturday last, before R. J. Pierce Esq., Coroner, and a jury of six, on the body of Joseph Conners, who came by his death by falling off one of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On. last Saturday morning a man came into Gosford and said that a shell punt had been upset about the middle of the day before in the estuary of Brisbane Water, near the bar; that three…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We are indebted to the courtesy of [?]. Gordon and Gotch, of Sydney, for the following distressing intelligence, issued on Monday, at noon, by the Herald as an extraordinary:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[We received the following important telegram from our Sydney telegraphic agents yesterday evening, but owing to a great pressure of business in the preparation of a heavy mail supplement-alluded to elsewhere..we were unable to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday (Sunday) evening the Bishop of Grafton and Armidale preached a very eloquent sermon to a orowded congregation in the church at Grafton on the subject of the Unjust steward…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thursday, April 30 We have had two fearfull accidents in the pits here, some account of which may prove acceptable. Yesterday, a poor fellow, named David Blacky, got…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Bathurst papers of Saturday contain full particulars of the fatal accident to the Sydney mail, as telegraphed in our last issue, but the reports do not, in substance, differ…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The American journals describe a disastrous accident on the Erie Railway. Carr's Rock is 16 miles from Port Jervis, and overhangs a tributary of the Delaware. The cliff itself…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Friday last, a boy named James Chapman, aged fourteen years, was killed at Platisburg, Wallsend, from the [?] of a violent Fail from a horse, caused by another boy,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir- In your issue of today (Tuesday) there is a communication from your Wallsend correspondent relative to an accident that happened at Platt[?],on Friday last. Now, sir, as we expect your paper to be the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir—Will your allow me a small space in your valuable paper to answer a letter from a person who signs himself "John Pierce. " Dr. Hill and myself are accused of sending to Mr Pierce for an instrument that we very…
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